Early 2000s Networking with Cisco PIX

[@chaseohara4781]

As a Cisco Certified Network Associate, I can tell you that I was trained on equipment from 2002 😂 because for some reason networking equipment is NEVER retired, just handed down. Hahaha

[@clabretro]

haha

[@rayneradam]

True story 😂

[@proximitea]

very true, for my church my dad put in this 20 year old DLink gigabit switch to replace a newer switch that was causing network issues and the network has never been faster!

[@cocusar]

we had some of these as well in 2016, the high speed serial port was... not fast (compared to the old aui 10mbit, although I don't recall if we could push it further than 115200)

[@hariranormal5584]

Because really, 10mbit still can do a lot. You can argue it doesn't, it still does!

[@theserialport]

Great deep dive into PIX networking! The repair on the 506e looked about perfect.

[@clabretro]

Thanks!

[@jfbeam]

Of course, no one bothers with those "fronts". I've never seen one mounted in a rack facing "forward". You'll want something to cover the fan, but a square of window screen will do. After 20 years, I'm surprised my 515E still has it's bezel. (the 2 506's don't. no clue where they are.)

[@serpent77]

I had two of the cisco pix 515 (not the E models) running in Atlanta and Tokyo between my apartments in each location running an international virtual private network, those were the days.

[@clabretro]

ha that's awesome!

[@markpriceful]

@4:00 "Cisco did not send me this unit" made me LOL! unbiased review

[@clabretro]

gotta stay honest 😂

[@clownhands]

I’m 43, started working in tech around 1999. This was soo nostalgic for me. Thank you

[@clabretro]

thanks for watching!

[@Beany2007FTW]

It's a bit odd to hear someone be nostalgic about equipment that my last employer still had in production (and I think still does) two years ago. And it's not because there's no better solution or because it's stable - it reboots frequently and needs remote hands to go hard power cycle it - it's because the CEO would rather spend tens of thousands on chartered flights, than ten thousand on getting a decent networking consultant to re-implenment it in something modern and reliable. You get nostaligia, I get something like PTSD 🙂

[@christophertstone]

The blue Cisco serial cable pinout was actually invented by Dave Yost, the pinout standard is called "Yost" after him. Cisco just uses it, along with Juniper, Aruba, ProCurve, Extreme, Avaya...

[@clabretro]

this is the kind of info I need. thank you!

[@derekbrotherton3462]

Funny enough, Ubiquiti just released a new firmware version for the UDM that has a feature called Shadow Mode. It’s pretty much the stateful failover that these 20 year old boxes have 😂

[@clabretro]

ha!

[@simon515]

I was thinking the same thing xD

[@jfbeam]

Nobody ever accused Ubiquiti of making _enterprise_ kit. :-)

[@markarca6360]

​@@jfbeamLook at their ads, they are making spat at Cisco!

[@Zach_Miller]

Too bad ubiquiti's feature (currently) isn't stateful, just a warm spare. Maybe one day..

[@eliporter3980]

I started my career working for the city and we had pix firewalls. I remember thinking it was so cool when I first learned about them lol.

[@ChrisUKFF]

Nostalgic as hell for me. I started my first IT job in 2003, I was dropped into the deep end on this hardware. Then straight on to call manager and IOS based ASA's etc. Before Cisco went all s***ty in the mid 2010's. Good memories

[@JohnKiniston]

The video effects made me laugh this week, I’m glad you took the time to put them in.

[@clabretro]

haha good!

[@Fractal_32]

Oh sweet, I cannot wait to see more retro hardware. Your coverage of Cisco equipment is another favorite along side IBM and of course SUN Microsystems. (The more I’ve heard about SUN the more amazed I am by their products: hardware and software.)

[@clabretro]

thanks for watching!

[@Fractal_32]

@@clabretro Your welcome! Thank you for the entertaining and educational content. I really enjoy coverage of new and retro hardware.

[@biomerl]

It is fun to see how little the config interface has changed

[@SB-qm5wg]

I still have my old serial adapters for older Cisco gear. I couldn't let them go lol. Nostalgia. My first networking class had 500s PIXes. No GUIs back then. Versions of config backups in case you made a mistake.

[@wesley00042]

Just a heads-up as you acquire Cisco gear: a bunch of stuff manufactured from 2005 to 2012 had potentially defective RAM chips. 2004 and earlier should be immune.

[@jfbeam]

And bad caps. And an era of bad Atom CPU's.

[@nikgolinar4378]

i had two 1812 routers, until the soldered ram went bad😅

[@tripplefives1402]

Everyone knows the stuff from 1999 and earlier was the best looking.

[@jfbeam]

v7.0+ (re)formats flash to have an actual filesystem, and modernizes the CLI to something that looks more like IOS. If you must use the older 6.3 line, load the erasedisk on the FO unit, and reload 6.3 via tftp. My 515E is running the last code published - 8.0.4(28).

[@clabretro]

yeah I'm gonna do the erasedisk, I couldn't even get it to load 7.x after that last pw reset attempt

[@jfbeam]

@@clabretro I assume you've found the activation code generator. (it's just md5) The erase process will wipe the code, so you should attempt to find it first. (logs from previous boots?) Otherwise, we're just guessing at the feature set. (no one has documented what the bits mean.)

[@clabretro]

yeah I've got that secondary wiped and back in action

[@pavelvrasskii1359]

Thank you for those warm and kind video. Cheers to you from Russia!

[@clabretro]

thanks for watching!

[@LB4FH]

A nice flashback to my days as an IT apprentice. We had a small 506e which I had to learn the ropes on. Cisco wanted absurd amounts of money for the RAM at that time, luckily any off the shelf RAM worked in them too 😁

[@braytonak]

I never worked with them, but they bring back memories of my first IT job where they were used. Good flashbacks. Caught me by surprise that our handsome host's beard is still missing in action. 🧔🏻‍♂

[@clabretro]

Shaved it for the first time in 10 years a little bit ago! I'm sure it'll be back.

[@The_Electronic_Beard]

I use to drool over these Cisco appliances. Had to settle with a 233MHz PII and Smoothwall burning up all kinds of energy and heating up my "network" rack. Good ole WRT54G as an AP serving 2.4GHz B goodness through a 8 port 10baseT powerhouse . Even in the booonies, we did get about 300mb/s. Hot stuff! Literally. Lots of heat!!! Nice gopro recycling! Saved some velcro!

[@hgbugalou]

Turns out you were ahead of the curve since every now is software defined running Linux in the background.

[@Wolferia]

I LOVE ALL YOUR videos I like old networking gears its better to get a better understanding of how things were and used!

[@ConnerWithAnE_]

Craziness. Was just looking at the channel 10 minutes ago just in case there was an upload.. And then here we are, Great stuff as always!

[@clabretro]

good timing. thanks!

[@alexdhall]

1:03: I love that the tower of Linksys networking equipment is taller than you are while sitting.....😹

[@clabretro]

I'm running out 😆

[@jjjjentges]

Ugh, this reminds me I still have a set of ASAs that I need to replace at my employer lol. I personally hate working on them, but not as much as CheckPoint. Really makes you appreciate how good modern enterprise firewalls like Palo Alto are. Looking forward to seeing these in an HA setup. Great video keep it up

[@nickwallette6201]

100% I cut my teeth on PIX, then ASA. I never felt like I completely understood whether particular kinds of traffic would work or not. There were so many additional configuration settings that would allow things you didn't intend to, or block things you wanted, and sometimes things seemed to work / not work even when the policy checker said they shouldn't / should. On a PAN firewall, when I write a config and it does something I don't expect, I'm immediately thinking -- what did I miss, am I logged into the right box, which one of the HA pair is active right now? Because it generally does exactly what it's told, and when the results are anything else, I can usually find the reason why. Maybe the difference is an additional decade of experience. I dunno. It's been a long time since I built a network around an ASA. But I remember it having a mind of its own. And I still, to this day, have to deal with VPNs that use that awful proxy list method of identifying traffic, vs. a normal routed interface at each end. MAN do I hate those. I think I'm going to hate-watch this episode, because I have no nostalgia whatsoever for these cursed boxes.

[@rayneradam]

In my current role I still use the blue rollover cables with a prolific chip USB to Serial cable. The newer switches have the usb mini only which causes more crashes than ever. I have been desperately waiting for an networking video 😮😅

[@chaseohara4781]

Yea, you have to get the right cables with the correct USB controller or Windows just will not have it. Haha

[@halitimes2]

The PIX was designed to be a NAT appliance, firewalls weren't a thing at that point. The fact it could do access-lists was just a plus!

[@mrzood]

Good stuff. Supported these things up until the mid 2010's at an old job at a dedicated hosting company. VPNs, NATs, and firewall rules for daaaaays. I definitely don't miss having to do the goofy policy NAT with access-lists where you had to re-apply the NATs each time they needed to be modified.

[@BillChurchFl]

Company I worked for used to make Cisco gear. Our test engineering team had a bunch of gear that didn’t pass and was clearing it all out and. Someone grabbed it all and setup a lab. A lot of weird Cisco stuff like web servers and file servers as well as big arse catalysts, 2511-RJ serial consoles (my fav) little routers, big routers. Failures were superficial like bad LEDs or physical damage. That lab passed around from person to person. I can’t remember who I ended up giving it to but we were happy to not have loud ass fans running in our home office.

[@clabretro]

ha that's awesome

[@Aruneh]

This is bringing some memories back from when I did my CCNA and CCNP. Not sure if I should thank you for that or not. :D

[@JRBlood]

Man this brings back some memories. :) Set up many of these 501, 506E and 515s back then. I still have my PIX 501 in my archives, but definitely off-line since it can't handle the speeds available today. That poor thing connected with 25 Meg up and down speeds would bury the CPU just on the port translations. Adding a single 3DES VPN connection to the office and I swear I could hear it screaming in pain. :D As any PIX admin will tell you, stick with the CLI. The web interface is just a pretty face that looks good when the boss is around. Using it to configure most of the delicate NAT and VPN configs... well there's a reason it's called "Config Breaker". ;)

[@clabretro]

ha nice!

[@gordonwhite96]

I used to have a denim jacket from the Pix product launch that I got from the PM in San Jose. It had a giant patch on the back that said 'firewall team' I think.

[@clabretro]

that's awesome haha

[@chaseohara4781]

Literally Everyone has 'bricked' one of these devices before... Sometimes on every other job 😂 it's very common, and it's not that difficult to fix, you were going about it the right way. If there's a checksum error, it just means that the file is corrupted, either the hosted version, or when you downloaded it. If you try another copy from a different archive or a different version it should still work. It could technically mean that the versions don't match, too (because you err trying to use an earlier version) but most of these devices don't actually care if you downgrade, I've done it many times before.

[@clabretro]

haha yeah. I did hunt down a flash erase bin I'll try next

[@jfbeam]

@@clabretroLike many network minions of the era, I have an extensive archive of PIX things. (well, as extensive as it was... 27 files, 102M Maybe more if I go hunting, but that's my primary archive.) Plus a pix license generator. (hint: it's just MD5)

[@TheQwik512]

Ha. I still have a 506e in a box somewhere. Good stuff

[@CisumAPRAT]

I really find this videos very satisfying and relaxin, keep it up !

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@unpromptedmusic]

The wall-wart PSU isn't for cost saving reasons, rather that telco-racks used to all run on a central DC supply that used the same plug.

[@clabretro]

oh interesting. would this small unit have been racked up in large quantities though? or maybe they just used the same plug.

[@unpromptedmusic]

@@clabretroThis being more of the 'small business' type, these would typically be combined with a small router with the same plug, and maybe a switch. A lot of these will ultimately have run off wall-warts, but you can find this typical DC plug on a lot of this type of gear, even non-cisco.

[@chaseohara4781]

Some of the 'newer' Cisco hardware actually has built in A/C power supplies as well as direct backup/alternate D/C connections on it. It's common to provide a UPS that provides D/C to a whole rack of devices, but it can also be used in situations where its easier to only provide D/C.

[@jfbeam]

@@clabretro Depends on the shop. Where I working in the early 2000's, 506's were paired on shelves. The power brick tied to the back of the shelf. The 1700 line of routers used the same power brick. As I recall, it provides 3 voltages. The 515 uses an internal PSU... because it has room for one. (the 506 is the same board as the 515. they omit the PCI riser slot, one flash chip -- thus 8M, and in some DIMM slots. the 506 was made to be as cheap as possible.)

[@ВиталийБойко-з5й]

oof, it takes a huge piece of nostalgy pie when we talk about hardware firewalls, since circa early 2010s firewall duty was taken over more consumer router thingies, thanks for covering the PIXies)

[@DonaldMolter]

Oh man the Pix that’s really taking it back. I recently heard of a colleague taking one of these out of production not all that long ago.

[@clabretro]

ha thats wild. I bet there's a lot still out there.

[@lillianivie4556]

"all over 20 years old" me, born 2002: well damn, makes sense lol. I love you videos man. Keep up the great work!

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@AdrianuX1985]

It's 1:20 A.M. and I'm just browsing KZbin.

[@stuffedpetcatty]

i love your videos clabert, i found you after looking for information on my compaq 1850r. youre kinda like my dad and i love you in a platonic way for that.

[@luis167]

Amazing go-pro fix front firewall cover

[@kostaz13]

It might be 2:30 am but I love your content so I will watch it right now!

[@clabretro]

haha thanks!

[@EvergreenLP]

Really interesting stuff you've got right there! Great vid! ♥

[@clabretro]

thank you!

[@HALFLIFETRUTHER]

Whoho! I know I got my evening plans settled now!

[@csudsuindustries]

Back in that period of time I had exposure in setting up and running PIX, CheckPoint on Sun servers (it was a software offering), NetScreen. Even had to use a Cisco 2600 to do NAT (ip overload) and ACL. Lucky enough I never had to admin a Lucent Brick. Being the Sun guy meant I had to admin the network hardware as well. The Windows guys kept to Windows.

[@thadrumr]

I still have PixOS 8.0.4(28) on my nas lol that was the last version supported by these beasts. The one pix I never got to mess with was the Pix535. Always wanted to tinker with that one. It actually had better throughput than the first gen ASA because of the bandwidth limits of the PCI bus of the ASA 5510 and 5520. The Pix535 used PCI-X 64bit slots which had more throughput.

[@clabretro]

oh yeah those 535s look awesome

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

Cisco! I saw this on the serial port youtube channel. This is so awesome to see this kinda older hardware.... Talking abt cisco, I was able to get a C3560X, C2960C and C3560CX switches and a couple of routers, Cisco 1941 and a 1111... And even Cisco Aironet APs (All at home from used enterprises). Happy to see anothee channel review the PIX! Great job again dude! Awesome job.

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

Nowadays NAT is just built into Cisco routers even home routers. Also using commodity x86 hardware for the PIX!

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

I swear. Cisco always uses IOS, so normal commands like en, conf t, sh ver, sh ip int br..... Hahaha

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

PIX part 2 haha. Have a great new year dude.

[@MarkyShaw]

Great video! The unrestricted license bit had me dying. 😂 Had no idea there were Pentium II’s in the 506e. I kept a couple in storage and might need to dig them out now! Love these videos looking back at server and networking tech from this era. So much still applies today.

[@clabretro]

Haha thanks. It's interesting, the PIX reports it as a Pentium II 300Mhz and I didn't think much of it, but some other folks pointed out PII wasn't ever socketed like that. So maybe some weird chip or a celeron!

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

The networks I ran used Cisco kit like this, weird to realise it's over 20 years ago.

[@John-McAfee]

Very cool stuff. Thank you for sharing, man. It's crazy how sloppy the FedEx IT department is for not wiping this. Not that there's anything too confidential on it, but yeah.. very bizarre.

[@TomStorey96]

Way back in the day the Cisco 2600 series of routers were my favourite, and they share the same design language/style as these PIXs (or vice versa). I always lusted after a 2691 but never managed to get one. I guess I could get one for a few bucks on eBay now lol

[@PierrickUke]

Love the videos, I look forward to more of them in the future. I'm having a blast watching you. :)

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@joeclarke123]

Absolutely loved watching this. Thank you.

[@clabretro]

thanks for watching!

[@firestormv01]

Fun Fact: The PIX 506E and its power switch can be wired to a standard ATX power supply. I've got a 506E that I had to hack together because of a dead PSU. But then again the whole PIX was only $15 from Ebay and I had a small eMachines ATX PSU that was just right.

[@clabretro]

ha very cool

[@Kevin-rh6zy]

This was fun. Good job and subbed to your channel. Hope to see more content from you.

[@clabretro]

thank you! more on the way.

[@zaremol2779]

I usually call those blue serial cables "Rainbow Cables", I still use one today, albeit with a RS-232 to USB adapter going into a computer

[@Chris_In_Texas]

I just got rid of all my old Cisco routers and firewall equipment. They just don't have anywhere near enough horsepower to run on today's modern networks. Considering that I have 5Gbps link into the house now with full backup, there was no way I would ever use any of that equipment again and it was just sitting collecting dust. I did have a fully licensed redundant 515E set as well. 👍🤠

[@clabretro]

yeah too slow for any real work for sure. just like messing around with them

[@RealEngineer]

Wooohoo🎉🎉 Pumping out episodes!

[@RoyHess666]

Oh the good old 515 series, I had one of them and was toying around a bit, learned a lot about the IOS (I think their shell was called to set it up). But ultimatively I threw it away because of speed and lack of features

[@djtomoy]

The real treasure was the (Cisco) friends we made along the way

[@cyberprog]

You mentioned Failover, Restricted and Un-Restricted Licenses. There was also an active/active license :)

[@strauss-2478]

Imagine the guy who was responsible for resetting the firewall watching this video :-D

[@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862]

4:18 that power adapter plug looks the same as dell used on the Optiflex 745 USFF series.

[@BestSpatula]

PIX and later ASA were workhorses. Then Cisco bought a cool company called Sourcefire and tried to merge ASA and Snort in a weekend. This didn't go well for Cisco.

[@johanea]

Dear Sir. I am a level 3 certified technician from Cisco located here in Mumbai in California. Namaste, I will very happily help you to fix your problem and look at the remote connections you should not have. Hackers.

[@miked4377]

fascinating video! i dont know alot about this ..but i like it and you are fantastic at this ...i am amazed! great job!

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@taylorking271]

Believe Cisco calls that weird serial cable a rollover cable. It came up on the CCENT certification exam prep material

[@Consequator]

The one thing I never liked about Cisco is how their firmware was hidden behind a support contract. Even with bad security problems you had to be paying the yearly fee. I get it for regular support and hardware issues beyond warranty but the firmware has always irked me. Sometimes we'd buy a cheap worn down 2nd/3rd hand device just to snatch the firmware from it as that was actually cheaper.. early 00's sysop ftw.

[@holdmybeard3160]

Awesome content!

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@JMassengill]

I have an ASA5510 I would love to put another OS on it. I worked on a PIX at my first job out of college.

[@clabretro]

nice!

[@jfbeam]

Technically, they're standard Intel PC's, and the ASA OS is linux. 'tho tricking one into running "homebrew" can be difficult. (I've made some modified images... to prove Cisco was throttling by model number.)

[@JMassengill]

@@jfbeam interesting.....

[@jfbeam]

@@JMassengillWell, they're obviously throttling the 5510... they don't allow the gig interfaces to run at gig. (secplus only enables one)

[@hgbugalou]

Back when cisco mattered!

[@kylebaker1839]

I just did a Wi-Fi check at a motel 6 and they had an old pix router all alone in a rack and powered on but nothing plugged in to it

[@xani666]

I remember hating those little trashboxes due to some weird behaviour and some bugs. I crashed one once by typing "?" ("show the help for current command"), and we couldn't repeat that bug... We even wrote a little bit of code to automatically push ACLs to those via CLI

[@nickwallette6201]

Monolithic kernels and software routing will do that. Which is why nobody does it that way anymore. These things are a honeypot nowadays.

[@xani666]

@@nickwallette6201 uh, I dunno how to tell you but that's how entirety of cloud runs. Software routing and monolithic (Linux) kernels.

[@nickwallette6201]

@@xani666 Yeaaahh, you kinda have a point there. But at least the entire software stack isn't running as one single process.

[@xani666]

@@nickwallette6201 I think main problem is that Linux just had million eyes on its code, improving and fixing bugs, while PIX was created in-house (by good engineers, but still). There is reason even Cisco went to Linux in their new products, writing the "money part" by yourself and getting the entire well built OS for free have way more sense than making your own OS.

[@okoeroo]

I know a telco which had these running in 2015

[@ramble-uk]

Not sure your failover would have worked anyway. Correct me if I’m wrong but your workstation has the inside IP of the primary - 10.0.0.1 - set as the gateway and in the failover config you specified a different IP for the inside interface of the secondary - 10.0.0.2 - so when it became active your workstation would have continued to send all traffic to the offline primary interface. Or does the secondary assume the IP of the primary at failover? If that’s the case then why give the secondary an IP at all? Or do they work active/active? Forgive me, I used to run an ASA several years ago, with no formal training, but it was all virtual I never had to contemplate an actual hardware failover.

[@clabretro]

I was thinking about that too.. I was just following some failover documentation I found, it did seem odd. I just got that secondary pix I was having trouble with wiped and running the same version as the primary again so I'll give it another shot eventually.

[@diconustra]

@@clabretro @ramble-uk My recollect is that they flip-flop IP's, so gateway IP's don't change. Can't remember if they do a gratuitous arp to update client arp tables or not. Back in the day, I deployed and ran a few dozen 520's, 515's, 525's & 535's on our network. It's been a while though.

[@IBM_Museum]

Heh, I'm starting into bridging between Token-Ring and Ethernet on Cisco equipment - Ten to 15 years before 2002.

[@clabretro]

nice! I've been picking up a bit of token ring stuff here and there, hoping to build up a network eventually.

[@capolaya]

My 2950 has the broken trim legs as well, green brittle plastic.

[@netzwerk-werkstatt332]

The cracked front is a known issue on these old Cisco devices.

[@KaldekBoch]

Ahhh PIX. I recall their original static inbound NAT commands with *no* fondness.

[@AnonyDave]

I really don't miss the pix devices. Worst syntax for nat, and just most annoying cli in general. But having said that, I did use a frankenpix for a few years - that's the boot flash isa board from an even older pix than you have there, installed onto a generic pc motherboard. Usually the classic 440BX chipset was the most reliable for it (as it's basically what the pix was built on anyway) edit: just to clairfy, I was a network security engineer a few years after that. Netscreen (this is pre the juniper acquisition), cyberguard, checkpoint, probably a few others I've long since forgotten. I've used a bunch of early 2000's firewalls and nothing was quite as obtuse to get your heard around...well except maybe gauntlet, but those were well on the way out at that point in time

[@clabretro]

I'd never done it before but even I could tell the nat syntax felt weird haha

[@AnonyDave]

@@clabretro As a note, if you want to go really oldschool pix, see if you can find a "pix classic". I think it's the most readily available that'll run the really old code. But I'm not sure they're that common anymore - that's where I got my first flash card from, a forgotten one in the bottom of a rack at work that no one ever noticed I'd pillaged it I'd also recommend if you want to go period correct to that era, a nokia ip series appliance running checkpoint was a lot more common in the places I dealt with. Should be easy to get the hardware, but after a quick glance it looks like the software is dropping off the face of the planet. Used to have isos for most releases from checkpoint ng onwards, but the drives I stored it on went missing years ago 😢

[@clabretro]

I've seen those checkpoint machines floating around on ebay, might have to get my hands on one.

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

I did my cisco course on these.... in 2015! My school had no budget

[@clabretro]

if it works, it works!

[@feieralarm]

4:00 The connector is a regular Molex Mini-Fit Jr. Finding one of those shouldn't be too hard.

[@4UPanElektryk]

Love your channel happy to see a new upload! Btw how do you pronounce your channels name like c-lab-retro or clab-retro?

[@clabretro]

Thank you! It's clab-retro. "clab" is a nickname I've had for a very long time haha.

[@XxCrawdadCraigxX]

good video

[@JohnKiniston]

Are you subscribed to the channel that’s building up a 90’s isp using period correct hardware? They have a sparc and just added ppp via terminal servers, maybe a joint project could be some sort of ‘network across time’ between their 90’s isp and your 2000’s enterprise. They are doing bgp…

[@clabretro]

yeah! they did an excellent video of the history of these PIX units

[@Veeb0rg]

Pop the cover on one of those 515e's, I think you'll be suprised.

[@uendarkarplips7263]

You need an ascend max or port master to setup a dialup ISP.

[@clabretro]

one day.

[@novo6462]

6:48 The Cisco logo - Thats the golden gate bridge? Looks more like a Bra 😅

[@itscraft2241yt]

you should make a video about old cisco voip phone, i have a 7942g in my house for intercom, flashed it with the sip firmware and host a freepbx server, and it works, you should try to replicate using the sccp protocol tho its way more fun doing it like that!

[@clabretro]

nice! i'll be messing with more phone stuff eventually!

[@keyboard_g]

I’m pretty sure these are still running in the server closet at work.

[@hellostove]

Used to go for natty ice on a Friday night, now I just go for NAT

[@clabretro]

I'll cheers to that

[@totohayashigo]

Nice ~ I am not Cisco guys! For some reason ... I am Juniper Guys !!! I am still using SRX. I think out side also can be DMZ as well .... hahaha. I like to the IOS ! I think those IOS will can work ... in SDN environment

[@ChristinaK1024]

You could have a secondary channel where you just do 00's IT equipment body work. Seems like you're always bending metal on this channel.

[@clabretro]

haha true

[@slazer2au]

A period correct 2000s enterprise rack... So kit from the mid 90s?

[@clabretro]

Well, PIX is from the 90s but these units are from 2002.

[@nrgonline]

Wait.. people aren’t using these now in production?

[@clabretro]

🙈

[@stephendouglas684]

Retro-servering-YAY!😂

[@craigmurray4746]

It's pretty hysterical how HP basically cloned the Cisco CLI for their ProCurve switches. The newer Aruba AOS-CX based switches have similar but evolved CLI now, I'm not fond of that CLI at all.

[@clabretro]

It is fascinating how the "feel" of this CLI is present all over the place in networking gear.

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

Giggity!

[@michaelross3196]

Annnnnd we still have some of them running.....

[@clabretro]

yessss

[@extrameatsammich]

If that is a Socket 370, it should be a Celeron or P3. It would weird for them to use a Socket 615 for the mobile processors.

[@clabretro]

it reports as a PII on the 506e but yeah probably actually a celeron.

[@BaHbKa1991]

I bought a 501 and after I tried change a battery I get a same problem, holder just stayed in my hand. I think it's a disease for 20 yo pix devices, lol.

[@clabretro]

Ha glad I'm not alone