[nsp] another mindbender for you guys

[jlewis at lewis.org]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Matthew Crocker wrote:

> Good point,   Port Adapters (PA-xx) do not support Online Insertion and 
> Removal (OIR) on Cisco 7500 series routers.  The VIP does support OIR.  
> You need to remove the VIP before you insert the PA.  I'm not sure what 
> would happen if you did it live but I would suspect 'bad things' (tm) 
> possibly killing the PA and or VIP.

Some coworkers who didn't know better tried that once on a 7513.  It 
didn't destroy anything...but it did crash the router.

In my experience, OIR done properly _might_ not crash the router.  Done 
improperly, it will crash the router.

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