Thanks Guys, Sure I had planned to upgrade to above 5.2 , are these firmwares available for download?
So the next question is really about the configs, Once a reboot is done all the previous setting take in effect, is that so? And for a rollback the do I just scroll for the image? Regards George On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:39 +0300, Humair Ali wrote: > Hi Georges > > Tim is absolutely correct, and since you are using the 2 netscreens as > a standalone, you are bound to have downtime. > > One other , I believe (needs to verify) you can't go straight from 5.0 > to 6.x, you need to upgrade through an intermediary such as 5.4 then > upgrade 6.x so that is added downtime since again code needs to be > reloaded after upgrade to 5.4 and then to 6.0 > > HTH > > > > > 2009/7/13 Tim Eberhard <xmi...@gmail.com> > > George, > > It's not possible to preform any kind of hitless upgrade.. > > The Netscreen must reboot once the new code is loaded. So you > must factor in > the time it will take for the firewall to reload in addition > to the hit it > will take when the wall comes back online and the traffic > starts to flood > back. Depending on the size of your network/amount of VPN > tunnels it could > take a couple of minutes for everything to ramp back up. > > Downgrading code is possible depending what code version > you're going to. It > can be a bit problematic if say you go to 6.X code from 5.0 > but if you had > planned on going from 5.0 to 5.4 going back shouldn't be much > of a problem. > > Good luck, > > -Tim Eberhard > > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:12 AM, George <gmb...@cellulant.com> > wrote: > > > Sorry guys, > > > > The two firewalls are in completely two different networks > and in no way > > work together. The reason I mentioned the two is because I > tried the > > same VPN on the other Firewall with a higher firmware and it > worked > > within minutes of set-up. So i really want to upgrade this > firewall. > > > > Thanks > > George > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:17 +0500, mas...@nexlinx.net.pk > wrote: > > > > > Are you using both of the firewalls as n active/active or > active/passive; > > > if yes thn you can try upgrading one of them while the > other will take > > > care of your production services. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Masood > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > > > I have two juniper netscreens one is Firmware > 5.0.0r8.1 . Now I have > > > > encountered a problem when setting up a VPN on this one > due to firmware > > > > version thus I need to upgrade it. > > > > > > > > The question is how do I upgrade this firmware, > challenge being that it > > > > is running live services and if the upgrade fails how do > I roll-back. > > > > Guess the thing is I have to be 100% sure the upgrade > will not affect > > > > anything. > > > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > George > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > > > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp