Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 12

| July 18, 2010

Dealing with a recalcitrant Cisco 7609 last night: Jim(23:12:37): so there is nothing we can do Russ(23:12:47): the equipment is, shall we say, untrustworthy Jim(23:13:05): do u think adding that 2nd sup card screwed the box? Russ(23:13:52): it might have done…. but the chassis was already laying back and thinking of England Yeah, I use […]

For the router geeks among us.

| June 17, 2010

[This won’t mean much to anyone who isn’t familiar with Cisco routers — the devices with which I’ve been earning my living for almost 14 years.] Here’s something you don’t see much anymore: [hostname] uptime is 6 years, 22 weeks, 6 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes To add somewhat to the degree of difficulty: System […]