Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net> writes:

In my experience flash is a lot _less_ reliable than HDs. Ciscos losing flash contents aren't that uncommon. ... So, for a boot device floppy is probably the best (providing it's not

In my experience, in an equal amount of hours of running Netblazers and Ciscos, the routers' flash has never failed me while the Netblazers *all* eventually failed to boot from floppy. The environment wasn't especially dusty, but it wasn't a clean room. I'd hesitate to use any floppy-booted device intended for use out of arm's reach. -- Robert