What's the time length on the bus stall? Working on re working lots of timers, hadn't thought of this. Something to add to the tests.
--chip On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Geoffrey Pendery <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll second Gert - I've personally performed close to 100 OIRs on a > variety of 6500 chassis, and never had it cause a problem. > > There was a previous thread almost exactly like this, BTW - if you > feel like searching the archive. It was half-filled with "OIR always > fails, I call it Online Insert and Reboot!" and half-filled with "I've > never had a problem, ever. Works like a charm." A couple people > explained the bus stall behavior: > As you're sliding the blade in, it stalls the bus when it first makes > contact, then releases the stall once it's all the way in. > > My take-away from that thread was that it's a self-fulfilling > prophecy: The techs who approach it confidently, expecting no > problems, slide the blade in quickly and experience none. The techs > who are worried and skeptical, slide the blade in slowly and > cautiously - and their caution leads to a reboot. > > That said, the others in this thread are also correct - if your RP is > doing stuff on tight timers, especially BFD, even a very short bus > stall can still be service impacting. And of course, it's better to > plan a maintenance window expecting problems and be pleasantly > surprised than to assume it's no big deal and get hit with an outage. > > > -Geoff > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:01:21PM -0700, John Neiberger wrote: > >> I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on OIR on this platform. Is > >> this something that you prefer to avoid? Do you have any OIR-related > >> horror stories you'd like to share? > > > > On 6500/7600 (and 7200), we *never* had any issues. > > > > On 7500, the "R" in "OIR" translates to "Reboot". > > > > gert > > -- > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > > fax: +49-89-35655025 > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc.... _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
