[c-nsp] Cisco Friends

[Shawn L]

I completely agree.  When we are doing upgrades on remote shelves, we set a
timer for 35 minutes once the link drops.  And keep telling people "don't
even bother looking until the timer expires".  Otherwise people start to
panic around the 20 minute mark.

It's kind of a pain.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM Gert Doering via cisco-nsp <
cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 03:40:35PM +0200, Simon Leinen wrote:
> > The NCS540 (using IOS-XR) actually reboot faster than the ASR920s
> (IOS-XE).
>
> Yeah, *that* is an amazing failure in the ASR920 platform...  it boots
> up to a point, then sits there doing "nothing" (nothing visible, at least)
> for 10+ minutes(!!!!), and then goes on as if this were to be expected.
>
> And then it decides to do boot rom updates, sets an env flag, reboots
> (with the 10+ minutes pause).
>
> And then it is done, and reboots again (with the 10+ minute pause).
>
> Truly amazing handicraft.  45 minute downtime for an IOS XE update.
>
> gert
>
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never
> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
>                              Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh
> Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> gert at greenie.muc.de
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