[12099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damon Hammis)
Thu Sep 4 23:22:23 1997
From: Damon Hammis <damonh@netrex.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 23:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970901102328.29373B-100000@netrail.net> from Nathan Stratton at "Sep 1, 97 10:40:50 am"
> > One big down point on the GRF's imho is that in order to change anything
> > with them you have to run a gdcreconfig, which stops and starts gated,
> > effectively taking down the routing for a period of time, whereas you can
> > add/remove a static route from a cisco and not bring down the routing.
>
> Back the truck up, where did you get this? If I want to change gated.conf
> I need to run gdc reconfig after I am done. This DOES NOT restart gated.
> If you want to restart gatec then do a gdc restart or gdc stop then gdc
> start. I would suggest you work with the GRF and then say what it can or
> cant do. It would be almost impossible to work with a box that would
> restart every time you wanted to change the configs.
I seem to have made a mistake in terms here. gdcreconfig doesn't
*restart* gated, but it does/did disrupt it when ran before.
I haven't messed with a GRF in about 4 months or so now, so they may have
changed this. I have had a couple of personal mails as well as mails to
this list that have suggested this.
> > GRF's also take about 5-10 minutes to reboot, which can be annoying.
This was the case when I was at AGIS a few months back. This again, may
have been fixed.
--Damon
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