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Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus) (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 months ago by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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This battery lasts the life of the router under the operating environmental conditions specified for the router, and is not field-replaceable.

But who determines its lifespan?

Knowing there is a battery set to fail and I can't simply replace it makes me physically uncomfortable. Enough so that I'd rather it not have RTC.

Thanks Cisco.

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 21 points 6 months ago

But knowing Cisco, the router would be unsupported and with some unpatched zero day vulnerability when the RTC battery dies...

this post was submitted on 13 May 2024

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