On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 7-24-2008 5:36 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: <snip> > At work, you >> do the reboot at 3 A.M. or you have users who are furious, or you >> send them a message the network is going down temporarily? >> > > 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.