| Jonathan Charles 2007-05-26, 7:11 pm |
| Well, we just yanked the flash, stuffed in the new one (it took a good
6 seconds for it to recognize the new flash) and copied the new
code... rebooted... total network downtime, about three minutes.
Jonathan
On 5/26/07, keli@carocomp.ro <keli@carocomp.ro> wrote:
> I'd definitely go with planned downtime, instead of experimenting, but
> if you have a prepared flash (same IOS, same configs, same files), it
> might just work.
>
> AFAIK a running router shouldn't really use it's flash. [for the short
> time, while you change it] Whatever is used from the IOS should be
> preloaded in memory at boot (I know a *nix kernel behaves like that, I
> suppose something similar from the IOS, based on the boot-up sequence).
>
> But if your router is so critical, that you don't want to power it off
> for the flash change, I'd experiment on a different router first ... ;)
>
> regards,
> Zoltan
>
> Quoting Ray Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net>:
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