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That works for me. If we were talking about hundreds of gigs, I might think otherwise, but I expect that this will go relatively smoothly and less complex is better IMHO. Best, -M< On 8/21/12 4:46 PM, "Mike Bushard, Jr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I typically would agree Owen, but in this case it may make sense. Everyone > will be down already, and we won't have multiple outages to the entire > exchange for IP changes. There will be a considerable amount of work if > everyone changes addressing on different schedules. I think just saying > that on day x we are on the long term strategy will save time in this > case. Our topology is pretty basic today so I think the rick would be > minimal at this time. > > > > Mike Bushard, Jr > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Owen DeLong > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:38 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] Juniper Switch upgrade > > As tempting as it is, I would suggest... NO! > > Multiple changes at the same time are rarely a good idea on critical > infrastructure. > You end up not knowing which change broke what when it comes time to > troubleshoot. While overlapping problems are unlikely in this case, I > would say it's still best to do the renumbering as more of an over-time > process. > > There's no reason to do renumbering as a flag day. > > Owen > > On Aug 21, 2012, at 12:28 , Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Mike Horwath wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:43:43AM -0500, Justin Krejci wrote: >>>> That said any time can be convenient if we have some time to adjust >>>> BGP configs to move traffic away in advance, which during business >>>> hours is typically convenient. >>> >>> A shutdown of the routing daemons on the reflectors should take care >>> of things and no manual BGP configuratin adjustments are needed. >> >> Do we want to maybe do the big renumbering at the same time as this >> switch swapout too? Since things are going to be down, everybody stays >> down until they manually redo their interface and BGP configurations >> after the switch change? >> >> Or do we want to do it more gradually? >> >> -- >> Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> >> -- ipHouse/Goldengate/Bitstream/ProNS -- >> Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades >> >> ###################################################################### >> ## >> >> To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: >> http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1 > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: > http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1 > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: > http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1