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How do most people start off learning about CISCO? By paying exorbitant amounts of money for their training? If they're making it difficult, yet not impossible, for new network professionals to enter the industry, then the argument could be made that it's expected to jump through hoops and/or cheat to gain a foot in the door (so to speak). They do call home with all sorts of 'interesting' information =:-o. I don't think anything prior to 15.x has that capability with the exception of the ASA and I don't recall seeing any data leaving my network destined for Cisco that originated from any of my gear. And the new Universal IOS images definitely have the capability to call home. That said, recent changes to IOS and feature licencing mean it may be harder to copy an IOS images whilst retaining all the features. And as I said earlier, I think Cisco are good deal more pragmatic and practical about this than the amateur lawyers among us. Nothing bad has ever happened to me (well not at Cisco's hands at least.). I am a Cisco CCNP so I do resemble a network engineer and indeed that is my job title. I've had a 'grey market' lab of about 20 bits of Cisco gear for over 10 years and it's ALL been 'on the internet' continuously for about 5 years.

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There must be thousands of companies offering Cisco training that have classrooms chock full of grey market gear.

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Text Every single person even remotely resembling a networking professional that works with Cisco equipment has always said that your gray market switches and routers should never talk to the internet or they will 'phone home' and really bad things will happen. All in all I think if Cisco were to start firing law suits across the globe to protect their IOS's (especially 'old' IOS's) would do them a great deal of harm indeed. Doesn't do us Cisco engineers who need lab gear any harm either. I firmly believe Cisco turns a blind eye to a lot of this 'grey market' activity in pursuit of the greater (for them) good. At the end of the day if a business (or whatever) buys a bit of Cisco gear, who is going to be making money? Chances are Cisco are in for a 'windfall' somewhere along the line whether it's a licence/feature upgrade, a module or WIC purchase or (now that the business has taken the Cisco plunge) they buy new gear from an actual Cisco re-seller with all the bells and whistles.ДЄnd lets be clear, I do not condone illegal file sharing of any kind but come on, lets elevate the thinking beyond the actual small print and live in the real world. The same goes for the 'un-official' re-sellers. I'll bet Cisco bank on getting more sales from 'on-boarding' Cisco acolytes than they would if they were seen to be harsh with people who, at the end of the day are likely to recommend and use MORE Cisco kit and not less. That little guy is going to pay for his CCNA (and maybe a CCNP) and chances are he'll be drinking at least some of the Cisco kool-aid for the rest of his networking life. I wonder what does harm and what does good from Cisco's perspective.Дoes Cisco come down hard on the little guy trying to get his CCNA? Doubt it. There have been reports of compromised IOS images making the rounds.

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If the software images do come from anywhere other than the official Cisco software repository (including preinstalled on used gear) you really need to check the MD5 signature against the official Cisco version. I don't know of any cases of Cisco taking legal action to enforce their intellectual property rights against a re-seller and I'd be very surprised if they took exception to someone using their software in a 'virtual' GNS3 environment. Of course there are dozens of Cisco re-sellers that sell used gear and those that do it the official Cisco way (sending the equipment back to Cisco for official re-licensing and charging again for the licensing) are obviously at a serious pricing disadvantage. I expect the automobile manufacturer's lawyer wasn't a software licensing specialist and used a lot of boiler plate text from somewhere else without actually realizing the real implications.

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That said, I carefully reviewed the license for the software that makes my car work and it's not transferable either so in some cases buying a used car is just as illegal (technically - no court would ever entertain that you did something illegal with regard to software licensing in buying a used car). And they're available inexpensively or even free.Д«uying used gear is most often technically just as illegal as grabbing the images from some file sharing site because the licenses are not transferable. There are a lot of switches, routers, and firewalls out there that, although not the latest, are still quite functional. If your goal is to run GNS3, then you need to get the IOS images in an appropriate way.Д«ut, if you're trying to work with a lab setup, consider getting the actual physical gear.