[j-nsp] How to upgrade junos 5.0.0r8.1

[George]

Thanks Guys, atleast that gives a success rate guarantee of around 90%,
better than some of those Vaccine drugs in the market.

Cheerz

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 15:42 -0500, Tim Eberhard wrote:

> You configuration will remain after the upgrade/reboot.
> 
> Downgrading is the same process as upgrading as long as you're going
> from say 5.2 to 5.0. Just load the 5.0 image and reboot. The 5.0 image
> is blown away when you load the newer screenOS.
> 
> Good luck,
> -Tim Eberhard
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM, George <gmburu at cellulant.com> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks Guys,
>         
>         Sure I had planned to upgrade to above 5.2 , are these
>         firmwares available for download?
>         
>         So the next question is really about the configs, Once a
>         reboot is done all the previous setting take in effect, is
>         that so? And for a rollback the do I just scroll for the
>         image?
>         
>         Regards
>         George
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:39 +0300, Humair Ali wrote: 
>         
>         > Hi Georges 
>         > 
>         > Tim is absolutely correct, and since you are using the 2
>         > netscreens as a standalone, you are bound to have downtime.
>         > 
>         > One other , I believe (needs to verify) you can't go
>         > straight from 5.0 to 6.x, you need to upgrade through an
>         > intermediary such as 5.4 then upgrade 6.x so that is added
>         > downtime since again code needs to be reloaded after upgrade
>         > to 5.4 and then to 6.0
>         > 
>         > HTH
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 2009/7/13 Tim Eberhard <xmin0s at gmail.com>
>         > 
>         >         George,
>         >         
>         >         It's not possible to preform any kind of hitless
>         >         upgrade..
>         >         
>         >         The Netscreen must reboot once the new code is
>         >         loaded. So you must factor in
>         >         the time it will take for the firewall to reload in
>         >         addition to the hit it
>         >         will take when the wall comes back online and the
>         >         traffic starts to flood
>         >         back. Depending on the size of your network/amount
>         >         of VPN tunnels it could
>         >         take a couple of minutes for everything to ramp back
>         >         up.
>         >         
>         >         Downgrading code is possible depending what code
>         >         version you're going to. It
>         >         can be a bit problematic if say you go to 6.X code
>         >         from 5.0 but if you had
>         >         planned on going from 5.0 to 5.4 going back
>         >         shouldn't be much of a problem.
>         >         
>         >         Good luck,
>         >         
>         >         -Tim Eberhard 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:12 AM, George
>         >         <gmburu at cellulant.com> wrote:
>         >         
>         >         > Sorry guys,
>         >         >
>         >         > The two firewalls are in completely two different
>         >         networks and in no way
>         >         > work together. The reason I mentioned the two is
>         >         because I tried the
>         >         > same VPN on the other Firewall with a higher
>         >         firmware and it worked
>         >         > within minutes of set-up. So i really want to
>         >         upgrade this firewall.
>         >         >
>         >         > Thanks
>         >         > George
>         >         >
>         >         > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:17 +0500,
>         >         masood at nexlinx.net.pk wrote:
>         >         >
>         >         > > Are you using both of the firewalls as n
>         >         active/active or active/passive;
>         >         > > if yes thn you can try upgrading one of them
>         >         while the other will take
>         >         > > care of your production services.
>         >         > >
>         >         > > Regards,
>         >         > > Masood
>         >         > >
>         >         > > > Hi there,
>         >         > > >
>         >         > > > I have two juniper netscreens one is Firmware
>         >         5.0.0r8.1 . Now I have
>         >         > > > encountered a problem when setting up a VPN on
>         >         this one due to firmware
>         >         > > > version thus I need to upgrade it.
>         >         > > >
>         >         > > > The question is how do I upgrade this
>         >         firmware, challenge being that it
>         >         > > > is running live services and if the upgrade
>         >         fails how do I roll-back.
>         >         > > > Guess the thing is I have to be 100% sure the
>         >         upgrade will not affect
>         >         > > > anything.
>         >         > > >
>         >         > > > Cheers.
>         >         > > > George
>         >         > > >
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