Router / Network Down Time On 9/10/2005 between 1:00am ET and 2:00am ET

[admin]

On 9/10/2005 between 1:00am ET and 2:00am ET we will be upgrading our router. This should only cause 20 to 30 minutes of downtime during the switch-over to the new hardware. We would like to allow 1 hour of network downtime as we switch the hardware out and reconfigure the ports just to be safe.

Once the router is done it should speed things up quite a bit. The new routing hardware is 4x as fast as our current setup. This should also help speed things up and cut latency by a few milliseconds.

This upgrade will allow Vortech to handle the occasional DDoS & ARP attacks that our customers undergo from time to time without affecting other clients on the network. This is one more step on our road to provide the most stable and redundant network possible.

Tech head notes:
Our router 7206VXR
Our current Network Processing Engine is NPE-400
Our new Network Processing Engine NPE-G1 4 x as fast.


Tech Info link on new card and old card.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...080116113.html

[powvex]

could you do upgrade after 6AM?? it will hit our localtime rushhour in the mentioned time by you.

[ashian]

I scheduled a registration program for our institute in this time. The time that you want to do your upgrade is the first working hours in our local Time . If your network will be down for more than 20 minutes I have to migrate to another server and its’ very difficult for me only 2 days before. Is there any idea? What can I do ?

[bocosoft]

I would prefer it a few hours before scheduled time, but curent is OK.

Doing it 6 hours later would hit our working hours, so I'm against that.

[ashian]

If it will finish before 9/10/2005 before 23:30 I don't have any problem . but in this time , I must change my server.

[Vidvandre]

For me, this is a good time for brief outages. I'm based in Norway and this converts to early saturday morning (if I'm correct when I ended up with this being 10th of September 05:00 UTC).

From the product details posted: The old router (NPE-400) has a speed of 400kbps while the new router (NPE-G1) is at 1mbps. Wouldn't this mean that the new router is about one and a half times as fast as the old one, or am I missing something here?

[admin]

No time is a good time guys, we can't make every one happy on this down time. But we will make it as short as we can.

Vidvandre CPU is also much faster, it will also let us get over the 200MB mark NPE-400 stops us at on our gige lines, we will now be able to go full gige with this upgrade. It can also take 1GB of ram where the NPE-400 could only take 512mb.

Its faster in more places then just CPU.

[generic]

couldn't you do yor upgrades every third sunday between 0300 and 0301 every second tuesday between 0100 and 0102 so it wont effect me , i mean it effects me, me, me, vortech, what are you thinking, what about me me me...

[admin]

lol, how about we just do it the day after sunday and before monday. Then no one would notice.

[Silverbug]

lol well how about reducing the downtime from 20-30 mins to 2-3 hehe then it just wont affect ME as much...

I agree, anytime is going to be a bad time for someone, so as long as the downtime is quick that'll be sweet.

[Brangwyn]

Makes you wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just do it whenever and call it an unexpected network outage .. I think theres less "fallout" from issues than scheduled changes right now lol!

[admin]

Well it might not even take too long, we have to shut down the router, pull the card(s) put in the new card, fix the config change 2 IPs and we will be back up. If all goes well it may be 10min, but we said an hour as you know how crap likes to happen.

[Vantage]

Bump

[MEELAN]

That means, the UPGRADE is OVER and we are online again?

[ashian]

any of my subdomains don't work correctly??(reg.iau-gonabad.info)