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upgrade switch firmware without stopping switching..

as we all dislike downtimes we need a simple restart if updating to a new firmware.

 

a) just switchover during run if change is quite simple and restart some services

b) restart but keep on switching but just do some basic things like vlan etc if this is possible by hardware. means a kind of fallback switching if cpu is restarting, many tasks shouldnt need cpu.

c) add an option to restart switch without letting ports go down so server wont notice downtime. so they will just timeout

 

i know these ideas are not really useful, but maybe an inspiration in optimizing the update downtime. also a faster reboot could be nice without all h/w inis.

 

also reboot should be timed on special countdown in minutes or on special time/date setable over html GUI. so it can be planned. also if boot fails it should recover to old fw, for doing so it should force user to login to web gui and say ok worked otherwise it would reboot to old fw