Rack rails on network equipment

Sat Sep 25 21:17:56 UTC 2021

On 9/25/21 2:08 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 9/25/21 13:55, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
>
>> My personal itch is how new equipment seems to have even worse boot 
>> time than previous generations. I am currently installing juniper 
>> acx710 and while they are nice, they also make me wait 15 minutes to 
>> boot. This is a tremendous waste of time during installation. I can 
>> not leave the site without verification and typically I also have 
>> some tasks to do after boot.
>>
>> Besides if you have a crash or power interruption, the customers are 
>> not happy to wait additionally 15 minutes to get online again.
>
> Switches in particular have a lot of ASICs that need to be loaded on 
> boot. This takes time and they're really not optimized for speed on a 
> process that occurs once.

It doesn't seem like it would take too many reboots to really mess with 
your reliability numbers for uptime. And what on earth are the 
developers doing with that kind of debug cycle time?

Mike