Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
I haven't come across anything personally either way, but it seems that this would be unnecessary for a router, since there are no hard drives, etc. I know it can be an issue with servers that stay on all the time, but I think routers, switches, etc. with no moving parts (except of course, the fans) could be left on all the time. I've definitely never heard of or experienced any issues relating to this. ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever > for a maintanance purposes ? > Thx > Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54099&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
I don't know of any reason to reload a router for maintenance purposes, generally if the router is operating correctly it can be left alone. The only reason for a periodic reload that I could think of would be if you have a large amount of subinterfaces which get deleted and created, because the subinterfaces remain in the output of certain commands until a reload. This is really more of an annoyance than a problem. -Original Message- From: McHugh Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54105&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
Periodic server reboots are generally to deal with memory leaks rather than moving parts. Flawed router software could perhaps exhibit the same fault, although I have never heard of it personally. Symon -Original Message- From: Robert Edmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 September 2002 20:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] I haven't come across anything personally either way, but it seems that this would be unnecessary for a router, since there are no hard drives, etc. I know it can be an issue with servers that stay on all the time, but I think routers, switches, etc. with no moving parts (except of course, the fans) could be left on all the time. I've definitely never heard of or experienced any issues relating to this. ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if > ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx > Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54107&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
""Symon Thurlow"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Periodic server reboots are generally to deal with memory leaks rather > than moving parts. Flawed router software could perhaps exhibit the same > fault, although I have never heard of it personally. CL: once in a while here in the home lab, I've run across issues that I have attributed to "artifact" - leftovers from the continual reconfiguring of things. OSPF and BGP have once in a while exhibited problems that I could not attribute to misconfiguration. I'm running 25xx's with 16/16, but the IOS images are crowding that, leaving not much room for things like routing tables, etc. CL: I would presume that in a production environment one might have less to worry about, what with adequate DRAM and flash, plus stable IOS versions. > > Symon > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Edmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 September 2002 20:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] > > > I haven't come across anything personally either way, but it seems that > this would be unnecessary for a router, since there are no hard drives, > etc. I know it can be an issue with servers that stay on all the time, > but I think routers, switches, etc. with no moving parts (except of > course, the fans) could be left on all the time. I've definitely never > heard of or experienced any issues relating to this. > > > ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance > from > > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if > > ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx > > Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54113&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
There is no such doc but there are times where a reload fixes a problem much the same way reloading your Windows PC does though less frequently;) I have several times seen a problem that just made no sense and there was no obvious reason for it not to work, reload router and wallah it works. Dave McHugh Randy wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever > for a maintanance purposes ? > Thx > Randy -- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367 "You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston Churchill Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54119&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
McHugh Randy wrote: > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever > for a maintanance purposes ? hi, my experience led me to rebooting the c7200 after every hardware change. even though they should be hot-swap they then to non-deterministic behaviour some days/weeks later. other there is a non-official cisco recommendation to reboot a router at least once a year. hth -bis Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54133&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
In reference to Symon's comment about server reboots, there is a moving part that would cause you to want to reboot your server -- the hard drive. Although it is not an extremely common occurance (especially since hard drives are supposed to be sealed), they can gather, for lack of a better term, gunk in the spot where the hard drive head parks when the server (or any pc for that matter) is powered down. I have seen where the head on an otherwise perfectly working hard drive will get stuck when the hard drive parks its head after powering down for something totally unrelated, like installing RAM, etc. Now, what was an otherwise functioning server, has just crashed. Powering down the server periodically apparently can prevent this. Just a little side note to nit pick :) ""Symon Thurlow"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Periodic server reboots are generally to deal with memory leaks rather > than moving parts. Flawed router software could perhaps exhibit the same > fault, although I have never heard of it personally. > > Symon > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Edmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 September 2002 20:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] > > > I haven't come across anything personally either way, but it seems that > this would be unnecessary for a router, since there are no hard drives, > etc. I know it can be an issue with servers that stay on all the time, > but I think routers, switches, etc. with no moving parts (except of > course, the fans) could be left on all the time. I've definitely never > heard of or experienced any issues relating to this. > > > ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance > from > > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if > > ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx > > Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54135&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
One of our border gateway routers has been up for almost 4 years. clt1-7206-twtc-bgr uptime is 192 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes Tim Medley, CCNP+Voice, CCDP, CWNA Sr. Network Architect VoIP Group iReadyWorld -Original Message- From: McHugh Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54155&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
""Tim Medley"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > One of our border gateway routers has been up for almost 4 years. > > clt1-7206-twtc-bgr uptime is 192 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes > CL: obviously you are not running IOS 12.x;-> > > > Tim Medley, CCNP+Voice, CCDP, CWNA > Sr. Network Architect > VoIP Group > iReadyWorld > > > > > -Original Message- > From: McHugh Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] > > > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever > for a maintanance purposes ? > Thx > Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54157&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
Many many moons ago, we had a bug where routers leaked memory (so we periodically rebooted them - about every week, I think). I think it was IOS 10.0 on an AGS+, though, so I doubt you'd come across that particular bug very often these days ;-) I work on the theory that unless there appears to be some problem (such as leaking memory, or a hardware change required), leave it running... JMcL Symon Thurlow wrote: > > Periodic server reboots are generally to deal with memory leaks > rather > than moving parts. Flawed router software could perhaps exhibit > the same > fault, although I have never heard of it personally. > > Symon > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Edmonds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 September 2002 20:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] > > > I haven't come across anything personally either way, but it > seems that > this would be unnecessary for a router, since there are no hard > drives, > etc. I know it can be an issue with servers that stay on all > the time, > but I think routers, switches, etc. with no moving parts > (except of > course, the fans) could be left on all the time. I've > definitely never > heard of or experienced any issues relating to this. > > > ""McHugh Randy"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or > guidance > from > > Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be > reloaded if > > ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx > > Randy > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54204&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098]
Living in Souther California, the power company does it for us on a regular basis after killing the UPS batteries. :-) >>> "Tim Medley" 09/25/02 04:50PM >>> One of our border gateway routers has been up for almost 4 years. clt1-7206-twtc-bgr uptime is 192 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes Tim Medley, CCNP+Voice, CCDP, CWNA Sr. Network Architect VoIP Group iReadyWorld -Original Message- From: McHugh Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Routine Powercycles or reloads [7:54098] Can anyone tell me if they have come accross documentation or guidance from Cisco on how often a 7200 router or any router should be reloaded if ever for a maintanance purposes ? Thx Randy Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54228&t=54098 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
