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A service outage spans three switches and one router; I have recent logs from all four devices but they're different f…

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A service outage spans three switches and one router; I have recent logs from all four devices but they're different formats and times are slightly off. I need to know whether a flurry of BGP resets began before or after the firmware push. Diagnose quickly whether the timestamps can be trusted, what to look for that indicates clock skew versus genuine event order, and the two exact commands to run to normalize and compare these logs so I can decide rollback or patch.
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Services fell over and I have five device logs with overlapping timestamps to compare now

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