I just got my first switch, and I noticed it was manufactured on my first birthday.

u/lukmly013 ๐Ÿ’พ (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 140 points –

Cisco Catalyst 2960-24TT-L

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my first birthday

MAR 14 2007

Anyone else's back hurt while reading this?

Sorry.

I didn't even realize people born in 2007 had consciousness yet wtf. Good on you man, enjoy your switch

2006, 2007 was my 1st birthday. But that's just a detail.

Also, something more to think about:
Oldest gen-alphas are currently 13.
First generation beta child will be born on 2025 (if Earth and humans survive).

Oldest gen-alphas are currently 13. First generation beta child will be born on 2025

These generational labels make increasingly little sense.

boomer = older than me

zoomer = younger than me

as simple as that

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Gen-alphas? Wtf is that

It's when you're out of latin letters because gen-Z

Well boomers kids were gen X, because x was edgy back then. And that fucked up the whole system.

You're absolutely right, I remembered that it started before Z, but couldn't remember how far back it went

Edit: but I can totally see a conspiracy theory about humanity being less than 30 generations old arise from this naming

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I was a Sophomore in high school when OP was born. How is OP on the Internet?

OP is 17

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You actually had it right before.

my brain is broken rn apparently, I had to put your birthday into an age calculator to confirm, arenโ€™t you turning 17 in a few months?

lol, there's a pretty big chance OP is probably a Sophomore in high school too

edit: probably a junior or senior actually but still pretty close

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What do you mean by your "first" birthday?

When I was exactly 1 year old.

I'm stupid :)

I was wondering if you were like born again christian or something and that you considered another importabt date as being your second birth day.

2007, excellent year! Also, I swear Cisco those older switches are will run forever (as long as you don't reboot it too often ๐Ÿ˜‚)

(as long as you donโ€™t reboot it too often ๐Ÿ˜‚)

Could you enlighten me on that? This sounds scary.

It's an old joke, when a switch (or any electronics really) has 365+ day uptime rebooting could kill the power supply during its POST power supply test.

Realistically you shouldn't have to worry about it, those are solid switches. I have a 3524 from 2001 that's still running, it gets bounced about once a year when I bump the power cable while recabling. I also have a 2960G that's on a UPS, and without logging in I couldn't tell you the uptime

don't update the firmware!!!!! these have a bug with their security module which essentially bricks them if you update past a certain point

Hmm. I planned to upgrade it to newest available IOS for this device, 15.0.2-SE11.
What kind of bricking are we talking about here? (Permanent or fixable)

I only found this:

A Catalyst 2960 with 64Mb of DRAM might display Low memory on the console after upgrading to 12.2(58)SE or later

Which should be fixed, and if not, I could just downgrade it back. Worst case scenario: I'll have to use xmodem instead of TFTP.

I can't remember the exact message, basically when we upgraded about 10 of ours, they wouldn't let us make any config changes past a certain point because they saw themselves as non genuine even though they are we've recently replaced all of our switching, I'll boot one of them up once I get in and check for you (+IOS version)

Do you remember if you could get to a rommon prompt? As long as console access is available you should've been able to upload replacement FW. I once had to use kermit or xmodem (I don't recall) @2400 bps to recover an AP by transferring new FW over the console cable (I'm not sure new APs even have a console port), but switches should be recoverable...the things you do, when you want to go home and not spend another day on site ๐Ÿคฃ

My only caution would be to ensure that you use the correct FW. IIRC -L means Lan Base not IP Services, but it should warn you that there isn't enough space, if that's the case

wait yours is exactly one month off from mine