July 25, 2002 – At work and keeping busy. Nothing much is going on other than all my family is gone until the end of next week. I slept about 15 hours last night to try and catch up for not sleeping almost any the night before (3 hours or so).

I will start studying for the routing exam I want to take. I brought my Cisco 1605-r to work in case I decide to study any here…not that I expect it to be a robust BGP router but, by the same token, I am not exactly peering up with an AT&T edge router, am I?

I reloaded the IOS 12.2 code on the 2505 and, well, it still takes almost 5 minutes to boot. I am guessing it is a combination of the code taking up almost all the flash memory in the router (16 MB) and the poor router only having a 68000 processor to uncompress the image and run it. I need to get an IP/IPX only copy of the code that allows IPSec. I would think that code image would be only 10-11 MB.

I am going to start some change control documentation after lunch. It is getting close to 2pm and I am hungry.