During the Tuesday, September 29th maintenance window, maintenance work will affect certain services, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following work is planned:
Distribution routers: software will be updated on the routers serving all buildings in the areas listed below. All network services (including Wi-Fi and IP telephones) may be disrupted in those areas for up to 30 minutes.
West campus: all buildings which are west of South St and north of Prince Alfred St.
VPN service: software on the router which provides VPN services will be updated. An outage of ten minutes is expected.
Wireless links: software on point-to-point wireless link devices will be updated. This will cause network outages (including Wi-Fi access) of around 20 minutes in the following buildings:
Mandalay-off-High
1 on Luke
3 on Luke
Firewalls: software will be updated on the firewalls which connect the Internet to the campus, SEALS and public networks. As the firewalls operate as a redundant pair, no noticeable outage is expected during this maintenance.
This work is being conducted during a minor maintenance period. Should there be a compelling reason why this work should not go ahead as planned, please contact support@ru.ac.za before 3:00 PM on Tuesday.