[c-nsp] Shutting Down Catalyst 6509?

[Seth Mattinen]

Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2008 20:54:48 Felix Nkansah wrote:
> 
>> Thanks guys.
>>
>> I thought it has some special shutdown procedures or
>> commands.
> 
> Which is something we wish for on Cisco's new ASR line, 
> seeing as it has a hard drive and all.
> 
> Current documented procedure to shutdown the ASR is to 
> reload as normal, then power-off the PSU's when you see the 
> Bootloader - not very elegant.
> 

How the heck would something like that make it past QA? I've never in my 
life worried about corrupting a router, switch, or any associated 
modules. One would think that some kind of battery-backed write cache 
similar to how RAID controllers deal with unexpected power loss could be 
used. I've never priced an ASR but they certainly don't look cheap.

~Seth