Hi all,
We have a CRS317 that we've recently put into our NOC. I jumped the gun a little as we needed to get it in, so I initially set it up with v6.43rc66. However, I noticed that the system was crashing; usually about every 36 hours or so.
The other night I went to site (as it had crashed again) and upgraded to v6.43. I thought it seemed stable, but this morning it's crashed again. I see v6.43.1 is out now; but nothing in the changelogs appears to address this. The user in post #41 of this topic also reports crashing: viewtopic.php?t=128915 Note: We need to use v6.43 because of Q-in-Q.
The good thing is that when it crashes, it's only the CPU that crashes and the switch hardware seems to pass traffic and operate as normal - I did hope this would be the case in the (presumed unlikely) event of a crash. There isn't necessarily any major amount of traffic going through it when it crashes either; this morning it went down at about 5:30 - expected traffic flow around that time is only 20-30 Mb. Even still, it's only the CPU that crashes; so it doesn't seem to matter what the switch chips are doing. Also the first time it happened, the Watchdog Timer rebooted the switch - I have since turned this feature off as we would rather manually power cycle the switch in a time that causes minimal impact.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?
SOLVED: See post #4 below.