I am in favor of turning down the route servers since it would gracefully stop the traffic flow allowing the members routers to automatically reroute traffic before the switch reboot cuts everyone off. The only issue is it does not address the bi-lateral traffic, and therefore the members that care would be forced to turn down BGP on their own anyway. So for simplicity sake, it would be easiest to leave it up to the individual members. I could see it working either way.
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Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] MICE Switch Upgrade
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:48:16PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> Will you be turning down the route server BGP sessions in advance of
> rebooting the switch?
Wouldn't that be just as disruptive as just doing the switch reboot after upgrade?
Ie. individual members could do so on the schedule they wanted to control the schedule themselves, but I guess I don't see a benefit for the central route servers.
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