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Re: Testing router code before deployment
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:35:23 +0200
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.
I had the habit of running almost every new IOS version through a series of tests stressing both performance, convergence and the usualy switching path bug stuff over a large compliment of interfaces. This was quite frustrating experience since the vendor never really fixed most of the issues present, some cases running for two to three years with reproducable problems. (most rendering the box unusable) I never got paid to do the same stuff for JunOS so I cannot comment on what would happen if similar stream of bugs would be submitted to their direction. Pete
Current thread:
- Testing router code before deployment Tom Holbrook (Nov 21)
- Re: Testing router code before deployment Petri Helenius (Nov 21)
- Re: Testing router code before deployment Jared Mauch (Nov 21)
- Re: Testing router code before deployment Petri Helenius (Nov 21)