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- Network Working Group John M. McQuillan
- Request for Comments # 406 Bolt Beranek and Newman
- NIC # 12111 10 October 1972
- Categories B.1
- Updates RFC # 381
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- Scheduled IMP Software Releases
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- This note is a reminder that the procedures suggested in
- RFC # 381 for scheduling IMP software maintenance have now
- been in effect for a period of about two months. Two points
- apparently require re-emphasis:
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- 1) We reserve the hour from 7 to 8 a.m. eastern time
- every Tuesday as the time when IMPs can be reloaded. We will
- probably not use this period every Tuesday, but we do reserve
- this period every Tuesday. The software maintenance time period
- is in addition to the hardware preventive maintenance scheduled
- at each site.
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- 2) We now send an IMP - Going - Down message to all
- the Hosts at the site which contains information on the time
- that the IMP is going down, the expected duration, and the
- reason. We try to send out this message an hour before soft-
- ware releases, and five to ten minutes before scheduled pre-
- ventive maintenance. Further, we will also notify the Hosts
- at a site, whenever possible, when it is necessary to stop the
- IMP on an unscheduled basis. Finally, 30 seconds before the
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- IMP goes down, a second IMP - Going - Down message will be
- sent to the Hosts informing them that the IMP is going down
- immediately. The format of the IMP - Going - Down message
- is as follows:
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- bits 1 - 4 - all zero
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- bits 5 - 8 - 0010
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- bits 9 - 16 - all zero
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- bits 17 - 32 - coded as follows:
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- All bits zero - going down in 30 seconds
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- Bits 17, 18 = 01 - scheduled hardware PM
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- Bits 17, 18 = 10 - scheduled software reload
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- Bits 17, 18 = 11 - emergency reload on restart
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- Bits 19 - 22 - how soon the IMP is going down,
- in 5 minute units.
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- Bits 23 - 32 - how long the IMP will be down, in
- 5 minute units.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
- [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 1/97 ]
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