Testing router code before deployment

Thu Nov 21 21:06:50 UTC 2002

One of my favourites was inserting and removing configuration commands 
and watching
the alignment errors  to run by or just a plain crash.

Or if you make the mistake of playing with EIGRP, you'll see the boxen 
spit out scheduler
related stuff.

Pete

Jared Mauch wrote:

>	Typically testing for (allegedly) fixed defects and historicial
>problems unique to ones environment is normal.
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>	Depending on the level of detail of buglists, etc.. people also
>test to insure that there are no reintroduction of old bugs as well
>as counter bugs, snmp issues, etc..
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>	- jared
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>On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Tom Holbrook wrote:
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>>Just curious what testing protocol people use with router code (IOS or 
>>JunOS for example) when considering deployment of a new version. Obviously 
>>the deployment would be made incrementally, but I wonder if you do anything 
>>more than running it in a lab router for a couple of weeks before the 
>>initial deployment.
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>>Thanks
>>-Tom
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>>__________________
>>Tom Holbrook
>>Sr. Network Engineer
>>Earthlink - Atlanta
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>>'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't 
>>safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'
>>--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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