[66515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Thu Jan 15 00:00:13 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:43:47 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40061B77.1020604@ai.net>
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.
Possibly I misunderstood your words: There's no problem having
backup image from network, but there's a problem doing network load
as a rule (as you seemed to suggest for version control purposes).
>
> 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.
> >
> > -alex
> >
> >
> >
>
