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5. Deactivate each port on the Cisco switch.
6. Reboot Linux servers and check that all connections come back up.
In each case, the system recovered, usually with a brief outage. Some
connections in some of the tests did not drop, but the connection might have
briefly experienced a slow response. Whether or not there was an outage
depended on the connection (an established connection or an attempt to create
a new one), the direction of the connection (ingoing or outgoing), and how severe
the failure was (for example, the reboot of Linux took longer to recover.) We were
impressed at how well the network connections recovered during our testing.
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