[j-nsp] Feature idea: commit and-reboot

[Ryburn, Justin]

I think keeping the existing restart/reload methods is probably a good
idea.  However, having something like 'commit after-reload' might be
useful.  Then you could just reload as normal and the changes would be
made when the router boots back up.  Might also be a good idea to have
some kind of warning when you reload that the current configuration and
the startup configuration differ.  Just in case someone did a 'commit
after-reload' and never did their reload.

Just my $.02 worth.

Justin

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[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Richard A
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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:56 PM
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Subject: [j-nsp] Feature idea: commit and-reboot


While attempting to combine a software upgrade and reboot with a commit
change that would require a routing bounce (to minimize flaps
obviously),
I noticed that there is no way to make a change which will take affect
after the reboot is complete.

If you wanted to, say, turn on graceful-restart, change the families you
negotiate on BGP sessions, or otherwise make a session-resetting (but
not
so complex you need the safety net of commit confirmed) change while you
are upgrading or rebooting (the equiv of changing your startup-config
without changing your running-config), there doesn't seem to be any way
to
do it (other than trying to be really fast :P) which won't result in two
bounces.

I know the Juniper philosophy is "always make the configured state the
current state", but perhaps a "commit and-reboot" type command could be
used to check the config, apply it in the appropriate databases for
after
the reboot, and then begin the reboot without reloading the daemons with

the new config?

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