Tonight, during our scheduled maintenance window, we will be moving one of the Gigabit Ethernet connections from an upstream provider to our second boundary router. This should have minimal impact on operations as our remaining upstreams will remain active during the switch over. The move will happen just after midnight PDT and should take no longer than two minutes.

This is the first of many steps we are taking to complete a full-mesh network configuration upgrade. When complete our internal network will be as fully meshed as our external network connections have been since we implemented BGP routing in the mid-90s. This will provide yet another layer of redundancy to your connectivity here at digital.forest.

Update: We will also be replacing a failed fan in an Ethernet switch in row 4 of our datacenter. This may require a reboot of the switch, which would result in a few moments of lost connectivity for the servers in row 4.