Re: Rack rails on network equipment

[Shawn L via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Why about thinks like the Cisco 4500 switch series that are almost as long as a 1u server.  But yet only has mounts for 
a relay type rack. 

As far as boot times, try a Asr920.  Wait 15 minutes and decide if it’s time to power cycle again or wait 5 more 
minutes 

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> On Sep 25, 2021, at 5:22 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>
> 
> > 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