[rt-users] Need "DB_PORT" in Makefile and support throughout build

[Trevor Sky Garside]

I'd like to point out that this discussion is getting needlessly off topic
for the rt-users list.

Trevor Sky Garside
<trevor at trevorsky.com>

PS -- Please don't flame me...  ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrin Walton" <darrinw at nixc.net>
To: "Technical Support" <service at lobosoft.com>
Cc: <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Need "DB_PORT" in Makefile and support throughout
build
> Let me present this situation to you.
>
> You have to bring up a circuit (say OC48).  Bringing up the circuit to
> test could, in some way crash the router.  (router vendor not important,
> it could be either cisco or juniper).
>
> Now, bringing the circuit up on a 'test' router, if you have one available
> for both sides of the connections (which let me tell you, gets quite
> expensive, usually test equipment is kept in a lab somewhere).  You test
> the circuit, it is clean.  Now, you still have to put it on the production
> router.  Putting the circuit on the production router could crash the
> router.  What do you do?
>
> Your solution is not feesable for every situation.
>