On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote: <snip>
I usually have to do updates like that on the weekends, as I can't depend on a 3AM reboot to be up in the morning when Exec's are in. A reboot I trust, but not the first one after a kernel change. On a weekend I can drive in and see what happened if necessary and switch to a backup router. In our main office I have 2 running side by side and I can log in to the T1 router and change switch ports to swap them. Then a reboot on the router to hasten the MAC changeover. Usually 5 minutes tops.
Thank you for the explanation! I wondered, if you would trust it, to come back up, if you scheduled a reboot for 3 A.M.
I just had a perfect example this morning. One of the routers didn't come back up after the upgrades and remote reboot yesterday. I had to have someone at the site powercycle the equipment. Still much easier than having to drive over there myself.
Good that you are very conservative and do not leave the executives without Internet access! :-) I updated our backup IPCop box yesterday. Our IPCop box and our ADSL modem are choke points. The ADSL modem is the only thing we have that we don't have a backup for.