[MIXP Announcement] Re: MIXP Maintenance planned: 01h00 UTC on Saturday 7 Nov

-- Keessun Fokeerah MIXP team -- Mauritius Internet Exchange Point(MIXP) w: http://www.mixp.org/ On 04/11/2020 09:24, Keessun Fokeerah wrote: > Colleagues, > > I have some good news from the tech team.  We’ve recently received a > donation of two new servers from the Internet Society to help provide > additional services at the MIXP.  We are now ready to incorporate these > into our setup, so that we can start serving you better. > > To start, we will be using these to provide resiliency for the BGP route > server (BGP-RS) service that the MIXP provides.  So, this weekend, we’re > going to move RS1 to one of the servers on the new cluster.  We’re going > to use the time to do some system maintenance as well (new kernel > updates), so you will see a brief outage to your BGP-RS and BGP-RC > (route collector) sessions, whilst we reboot and upgrade these. > > Of course we’ll do this carefully, and only one at a time, so no actual > traffic flow should be interrupted, even though you will see the BGP > sessions reset. > > We have some other great tools that we will adding to our setup.  More > on this to follow. > > For now, please take note that during the time period 01h00 UTC on > Saturday 7 Nov you can expect to see the BGP sessions mentioned above > reset. > > If you have any questions, or suggestions, please feel free to teach out > to the techical team via noc@mixp.org. > > Regards, > >