Secondhand OXE
Secondhand OXE
I was a trained technician on the 4400, several years ago. I am looking to get back into that line of work, but want to buy a small switch to brush up my skills. eBay has lots of secondhand OXEs from not much more that €150. Will I be able to play with one of these straight from the box? Or will I have to buy new licences to use them?
I don't plan to connect to PSTN, just sit at home and remind myself how to configure things . . .
Thanks
I don't plan to connect to PSTN, just sit at home and remind myself how to configure things . . .
Thanks
Re: Secondhand OXE
Why buy a physical oxe, use VM workstation or player and load a VM oxe and away you go.
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Re: Secondhand OXE
You will still need valid licenses and will last only 30 days. Trick for restore licenses stopped working since R9.1
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Re: Secondhand OXE
You can still do it Cav just a lit bit more work
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O.o please share! How?
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Re: Secondhand OXE
Thanks for the advice, fellas. Sounds like a much better option. But I don't have access to an OXE at the moment, and have no idea how to create a VM image file in any case. Can anyone advise before I bite the bullet and buy from Ebay?
Re: Secondhand OXE
Thanks Cavagnaro.
With the aid of your excellent tutorial I am no longer completely clueless about VM Ware! I have a working OXE, but am restricted on what I can do without valid OPS files Is it correct that I can buy a trial version to play with for 30 days? I can't find info online for this. Thanks
With the aid of your excellent tutorial I am no longer completely clueless about VM Ware! I have a working OXE, but am restricted on what I can do without valid OPS files Is it correct that I can buy a trial version to play with for 30 days? I can't find info online for this. Thanks
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No, no trial, what you do is to grab one from a customer or lab and use it in your lab. Will work for 30 days
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Re: Secondhand OXE
You can try the following to renew the 30 days, it worked for me on an R12.1 OXE in vmware workstation.
>cdmao
>mv software.mao software.old (rename software.mao to software.old)
>reboot
once reboot rename software.old to software.mao again:
>cdmao
>mv software.old software.mao
30 remaining days should be seen now. (incase if no duration days shown but panic flag 1 is present in spadmin, then reboot again after above software.mao change command)
Check spadmin option 1 for any panic flag, if panic flag = 1 then reboot once again and check spadmin option 1. Panic Flag should be 0.
And 30 days remaining message should on mtcl login.
Note you will need the correct software release in OPS (.swk) for the target OXE machine.
Good luck!
>cdmao
>mv software.mao software.old (rename software.mao to software.old)
>reboot
once reboot rename software.old to software.mao again:
>cdmao
>mv software.old software.mao
30 remaining days should be seen now. (incase if no duration days shown but panic flag 1 is present in spadmin, then reboot again after above software.mao change command)
Check spadmin option 1 for any panic flag, if panic flag = 1 then reboot once again and check spadmin option 1. Panic Flag should be 0.
And 30 days remaining message should on mtcl login.
Note you will need the correct software release in OPS (.swk) for the target OXE machine.
Good luck!
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