Re: [CentOS] oops, or how to bring a datacenter router down with one setting

Devin Reade wrote: <snip>

I do have clusters where bonding is in use but those have helped not so much in avoiding NIC failures as they do in allowing the machines to continue operating as the network team brings down part of the redundant switch network for maintenance (or to replace a failed switch, or when some fool decides that they can unplug a network cable briefly so that they can move other cables around).

Now wait a minute - I would dearly love to disconnect some cables we have in a shared rack downstairs in the datacenter - it's a rats' nest, and more than half ain't ours, and every single time I have to do something in the back, I'm deathly afraid I'm going to pull out somebody's power, or....

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