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(More customer reviews)The IOS version this router shipped with has a pretty annoying bug that made me waste 3 days to isolate and figure out. The bug is that once you setup your VLAN, DHCP, WAN and NAT, the router connected to my ISP and obtained an IP address from my ISP BUT, after saving the config as the startup-config and power-cycling, there is an issue with the NVI0 interface which manages NAT that prevents the NVI0 interface from starting-up, thus never obtaining an IP from my ISP.
Upgrading to the latest IOS version fixed that problem.. but you have to pay for a service contract to get access to IOS updates which run $200+/year.
All said and done, it's a great router and offers a decent feature set to get good experience with cisco routers and the IOS.
If it had not been for this issue, I'd give this router 5 starts.
This router does come with CCP (graphical configuration manager) but, be warned, it SUCKS. I find the CLI easier to use than the GUI but, that may be because I'm a software engineer.
Be warned, if you buy this router, you will need to upgrade the IOS to get it working in a dynamic IP setting.
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