We recently (within the last year) decommissioned a Cisco 5505 chassis
that had an uptime of just over 1700 days.
The power has failed several times since the removal of the chassis
which we found quite ironic!
On 23 Jun 2009, at 07:37, Ziv Leyes wrote:
Hey Ted, (off topic) why would you sell such a nice car? It's a
classic! I'd love to get one and pimp it!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:07 AM
To: Sridhar Ayengar
Cc: Ziv Leyes; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Long Uptime
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Ziv Leyes wrote:
I second that, besides, back then, there were not so many bugs as
today, as with every new feature and more complex technology comes
also a lot of bugs.
When systems were simpler, there were less problems, how many
times do
you remember having to hard reset your PC when using DOS 6.2 because
it "hanged" and nothing else could be done?? Also, the exploits that
might be there on such an old device are SO old that nobody will
think
to try, is like to try to find a computer with "Netbus" Trojan open
for you to just hack in... heheh
Besides that, there are operating systems that can be updated
without a
reboot.
I once had a FreeBSD system at a customer site acting as a NAT
router, a
486/33 with 200MB disk drive - uptime of 3 years on it.
This was before the days of sub-$100 1605's on Ebay.
The biggest obstacle to the super-long uptimes is electrical power,
IMHO. You have to have a pretty expensive UPS that will allow
hot-swapping to even get into the game.
Speaking of long-running times for computers - I sold a 1984 Chevy
2 years ago that had a computer-controlled carb in it - while it
wasn't running continuously for 23 years, I have no doubt the thing
is still trundling along the highways today.
Ted
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