on 7-26-2008 1:05 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> 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. 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080728/ef461b2b/attachment-0005.sig>