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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/assholedesign

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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

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