Re: (ngtrans) Update to Provider Independent addressing format drafts

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dancer Vesperman wrote:
> Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> >>Renumbering a 100-router, 300-server, 24x7 $1M/day revenue generating
> >>room is quite another one.
> >>
> > 
> > I've been involved with renumbering of ~300 IPv4 machines of widely varying
> > platforms, in less than an hour, on multiple occasions.   It took prior 
> > planning, a bit of coding, and a mechanism for quickly finding the machines 
> > on which the renumbering failed.  But it wasn't rocket science.
> > 
> > If we had standard tools to do this it would be even easier.  
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
> 
> Agree. Unless your IT-plan is one of those organic messes, it's no 
> biggie. A couple of minutes per machine usually suffices, with some 
> slightly longer times where there are spaghetti systems installed. It 
> certainly takes less time than the network vendor trying to figure out 
> why their system isn't working, in my experience.

Renumbering is MUCH more than just changing addresses in _your_ systems.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords