[c-nsp] Long Uptime

[Alasdair McWilliam]

We recently (within the last year) decommissioned a Cisco 5505 chassis  
that had an uptime of just over 1700 days.

The power has failed several times since the removal of the chassis  
which we found quite ironic!


On 23 Jun 2009, at 07:37, Ziv Leyes wrote:

> Hey Ted, (off topic) why would you sell such a nice car? It's a  
> classic! I'd love to get one and pimp it!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at mittelstaedt.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:07 AM
> To: Sridhar Ayengar
> Cc: Ziv Leyes; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Long Uptime
>
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Ziv Leyes wrote:
>>> I second that, besides, back then, there were not so many bugs as
>>> today, as with every new feature and more complex technology comes
>>> also a lot of bugs.
>>> When systems were simpler, there were less problems, how many  
>>> times do
>>> you remember having to hard reset your PC when using DOS 6.2 because
>>> it "hanged" and nothing else could be done?? Also, the exploits that
>>> might be there on such an old device are SO old that nobody will  
>>> think
>>> to try, is like to try to find a computer with "Netbus" Trojan open
>>> for you to just hack in... heheh
>>
>> Besides that, there are operating systems that can be updated  
>> without a
>> reboot.
>>
>
> I once had a FreeBSD system at a customer site acting as a NAT  
> router, a
> 486/33 with 200MB disk drive - uptime of 3 years on it.
>
> This was before the days of sub-$100  1605's on Ebay.
>
> The biggest obstacle to the super-long uptimes is electrical power,
> IMHO.  You have to have a pretty expensive UPS that will allow
> hot-swapping to even get into the game.
>
> Speaking of long-running times for computers - I sold a 1984 Chevy
> 2 years ago that had a computer-controlled carb in it - while it
> wasn't running continuously for 23 years, I have no doubt the thing
> is still trundling along the highways today.
>
> Ted
>
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