February 06, 2007
Another move
Have a small job in the pipe -- the WiFi at one of the garages was supposed to have gone in in '05. OOPS! The existing LAN, left, needs to be upgraded from Cisco switches to Foundry switches with PoE (Power over Ethernet.).
Again it is a case of having two switches up and working at one time. I drop the Panduct , lower the Cisco, mount the Foundry
IF someone had asked me I would have told them to use a different IP address for the new switches. Then I could have cascaded the new switch from the old, test, move the clients from old to new, and finally, with no one left on the old except the Foundry, move the feed from the old to the new. It would be transparent to the clients -- they wouldn't be off the LAN for long enough to lose their IP address.
But they didn't. So at some point I'll have to switch the feeds to the new switches, followed by moving the clients. Everything will be dropped for a few minutes. And, since I don't get overtime, it will be during the day.
Posted by Paladin at February 6, 2007 06:38 PM