Yeah I have the same experience of hitless upgrades. At least when moving between several versions. I usually call it shitless upgrade =)
Regards Andreas 6 jan 2013 kl. 00:15 skrev Fredy Kuenzler <[email protected]>: > Am 05.01.2013 10:29, schrieb Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr: >> I am planning an upgrade from 5.4.0.a to 5.4.0.b for our MLX boxes (dual >> MP). >> >> I have been reading the upgrade notes of NetIron 5.4.0.b. >> >> Has anyone used the hitless upgrade procedure on MLX successfully ? > > We tried hitless a couple of years ago, with 5.1x I believe. Bad move. It > seemed to work, but we figured only hours and days later, that some parts of > the configuration stopped to work properly. If I remember correctly, it > introduced silently blackholes in the BGP table, which is really nasty. > > Since this experience we gave up to use hitless upgrades. > > -- > Fredy Künzler > > Init7 (Switzerland) AG > AS13030 > Elias-Canetti-Strasse 7 > CH-8050 Zürich > Skype: flyingpotato > Phone: +41 44 315 4400 > Fax: +41 44 315 4401 > Twitter: @init7 > http://www.init7.net/ > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > [email protected] > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
