Last week I experienced a strange problem on a CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ with 6.39.1
After fully loading the built-in switch by sending traffic at gigabit rate between ether1 and ether3,
the ethernet ports temporarily went down and came back up. From now I see in the /export that
the default ether name does no longer correspond to the name I gave it:
set [ find default-name=ether5 ] name=ether1-vm1
This way the first 4 and second 4 ports became swapped. (5<>1 6<>2 7<>3 8<>4)
What will happen when I reboot it? Will it recover the situation or will I lose access to the device because the
ports will then be REALLY programmed that way? (for now it all still works but the export is wrong)
I seem to remember I read about this problem before on the forum but I cannot locate that article using search.
As I don’t have easy physical access and the connectivity is important, I am now very careful to do anything
that will break it.
I had configured the CCR with 2 partitions and the 2nd partition still has a copy made before this problem
occurred, I could be resued when the 2nd partition boots. However, in the Manual:Partition I read that the
second partition boots when the first one fails to boot, but I am afraid that configuring the ports in the
wrong order is not considered a failure.
Is it possible to make the unit boot the fallback partition when certain conditions are not met, e.g. when a
netwatch does not come up after booting or similar? That could also be useful in other cases, e.g. when
the router fails due to a configuration mistake.