[66514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Jan 14 23:48:31 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:47:51 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401142132090.6046-100000@paix.pilosoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I didn't say that I did it, but having a server with a backup OS image
in case your flash-drive fails isn't the worst thing in the world.
Especially for a remotely-adminstered POP.
How many flash drives will fail due to overwrite in a year? 1 per 1000?
if even? Its an absurd solution for an even less likely problem.
alex@pilosoft.com wrote:
>>One problem is that with Cisco, unless you are buying the largest
>>platforms available, each Cisco series uses different underlying
>>hardware with different performance characteristics and images. You need
>>to keep track of lots of separate images and versions when doing
>>upgrades. With a network boot OS for each POP, you can do version
>>control much much more easily.
>
> In words of Randy, "I encourage all my competitors to network boot their
> routers".
>
> Seriously - that's insane, multiple single points of failure.
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> -alex
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