Hi everybody, we´ve been running different M-series boxes including ~20 M7i´s. In the last 12 months, we had an issue with 3 of these M7i´s: they crashed and couldn´t recover "by themselves". These failures happened usually in association to power failures in facilities, and logs also indicate problems when writing to the hard-disk.
These boxes only have a hard-drive as storage media, so there isn´t a flash memory in the routers. After the crash, usually we´ve seen these routers continuously trying to boot from HD, but without success. Then, we had to disconect power, take a breath (it´s serious, about 5 minutes long) and power up the router again. After that, theses routers were able to recover, loading Junos correctly. Disregarding what may have have caused these crashes, I´m worried about the recovering capacities of these boxes, after a crash. So, I´ve got a simple questions: how dangerous is to run these boxes, without a flash card ? I´d like to know if everybody thinks this is a really bad idea, or it shouldn´t be really an issue and I simply had bad luck. Thanks -- Raniery Pontes :::::::::::::::::::::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rnp.br/ceo/ _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp