PSA: OSUOSL Scheduled Network Maintenance – Thursday, May 14th, 12:00–2:00 PM PDT (19:00–21:00 UTC)

[richardlau]

Refs: https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/hosting/2026-May/000657.html

We are writing to inform you of a scheduled network maintenance window that
may affect your hosted services at OSU Open Source Lab.

Date: Thursday, May 14th, 2026
*Time: *12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT (19:00 – 21:00 UTC)
*Expected Impact: *Brief outage (likely only a few minutes)

What's happening:
LinkOregon will be enabling MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation) on our
upstream ports to our edge routers. Currently, all traffic flows through a
single router. This change will allow us to fail over between two routers,
providing improved redundancy and reliability for all hosted projects going
forward.

We will also need to make some configuration changes on our routers ahead
of the maintenance window. We do not anticipate these preliminary changes
causing any disruption, but we will send a separate notification if that
changes.

While we expect the actual outage to last only a few minutes, we have
reserved the full 2-hour window as a precaution.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any
questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for your patience and continued support of OSUOSL.