Maintenance core router BIT-2A

Maintenance core router BIT-2A

31-05-2023 00:00:00 - 31-05-2023 05:00:00

Urgency: Planned
Affected services:
- traffic between internet and BIT network
- customer BGP sessions with BIT routers
Expected Impact:
- short disruptions in traffic to and from the internet are possible
- downtime of several minutes of customer BGP sessions with BIT
Customer intervention required: No
Referencenumber: 185500

Summary:

The software on our core router in BIT-2A is being updated to the version currently recommended by the vendor. As a result, there may be brief interruptions in traffic to and from the internet and BGP sessions of customers with BIT will be disconnected for a few minutes.

Details:

The software on our core router in BIT-2A is outdated and no longer supported by the vendor. During this maintenance, we will upgrade the software to a version recommended by the vendor.
Prior to the reboot, traffic will be rerouted via other paths, with a short interruption of customer connections possible. Customers taking BGP routing through BIT will see BGP sessions with one of our routers offline for several minutes.
Update placed at 31/05/2023, 2:40h
This maintenance was completed succesfully at1:45h.