Out of curiosity: you probably asked Cisco (SE? TAC?) "what is going on?!" They think this is okay? Uhm, "normal"?
reboot -- go to lunch -- have a coffee -- check in on router ? Call it work-life balance ;-) Probably somebody forgot some timeout but I still wonder how they "justify" the long boot time and defy any common sense ... . Marc On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 10:30:10 -0400, Shawn L via cisco-nsp wrote: > I completely agree. When we are doing upgrades on remote shelves, we set a > timer for 35 minutes once the link drops. And keep telling people "don't > even bother looking until the timer expires". Otherwise people start to > panic around the 20 minute mark. > > It's kind of a pain. > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM Gert Doering via cisco-nsp < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 03:40:35PM +0200, Simon Leinen wrote: >>> The NCS540 (using IOS-XR) actually reboot faster than the ASR920s >> (IOS-XE). >> >> Yeah, *that* is an amazing failure in the ASR920 platform... it boots >> up to a point, then sits there doing "nothing" (nothing visible, at least) >> for 10+ minutes(!!!!), and then goes on as if this were to be expected. >> >> And then it decides to do boot rom updates, sets an env flag, reboots >> (with the 10+ minutes pause). >> >> And then it is done, and reboots again (with the 10+ minute pause). >> >> Truly amazing handicraft. 45 minute downtime for an IOS XE update. >> >> gert >> >> -- >> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you >> feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never >> doubted >> it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." >> Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh >> Mistress >> >> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany >> [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/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
