[c-nsp] Is annual reloads of Cisco 6500 necessary

[Łukasz Bromirski]

On 2009-12-12 20:44, Thilak T wrote:
> Hello Fourm ,
>
> How important or significant is to schedule reloads of Data Center /Campus
> switches with uptime over 1 year ? What is the logic/reason behind this
> advice from Cisco.

There is no such advice. There is a sort of "urban legend", but
in reality, a misquoted Cisco document for one of the customers, that
if under specific circumstances the devices working as a pair were
to be kept under the same revision of software that was known to
be buggy (but customer accepted it), the switches were to be rebooted
before the agreed amount of memory was lost by a dead process.

It was later quoted as an official advice from Cisco that specific
Catalyst models or specific router models (depends on what version of
the legend you've heard) were meant to be rebooted after X days of
operation.

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