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Move of Internet traffic to backup firewall for firmware validation

 
Description: 

 

The Internet traffic will be moved to the backup firewall to validate a new firewall firmware release.

Users are invited to report anomalies with connections to external sites to neteng@cern.ch.

 
All the TCP connections to external sites will be reset at the time of the moves.

 

Reason for this intervention: 

Validation of new firmware with production traffic.

Effective from date: 
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 07:30
End date: 
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 07:30
Service Element Affected: 
Network Infrastructure Service
Impact on service: 
Intervention should be transparent
Posted by: 
IT-CS
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department