Re: (ASCEND) Giving it the boot

[Jim Howard <jhoward@lyceum.com>]

At 14:53 1998/02/04 -0600, T. D. Wolf wrote:
>> It _shouldn't_ hurt anything to reboot when there are not problems.
>> I have a weekly scheduled down time to reboot anything that needs it, 

>I don't agree -- except on a trivial network rebooting a router can cause 
>network instability -- and it probably won't have any positive benefit.  
>Although our Ascend routers fail every 1-3 days, rebooting them hasn't
>prevented the problems from occuring just as regularly.

but it does let one control when the lines are down,
instead of crashing at random times in the middle of the day,
and dropping 40+ users, who imediately try to dial back,
get a busy signal, and call to ask why I won't let them connect.

-Jim H
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