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I got asked by a colleague the other day about upgrading firmware on servers and whether it takes the server off the network”

“is it something I can do online (below the radar), or does the server disconnect from the network?”.

In answer to her question I responded that the network card will briefly disconnect from the network but you might not necessarily from a user standpoint see an outage, regardless it is something that you probably want to do out of normal hours or with user approval just in case. It doesn’t always disconnect from the network and even if it does it might only drop a ping or two, but for the sake of goodwill and best practice, you’re probably best letting the users know that there may be a brief outage.

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