[116435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cisco.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Aug 4 12:24:09 2009
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:23:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3610.217.132.99.105.1249401694.squirrel@email.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, hank@efes.iucc.ac.il wrote:
> a) they were smoking something and indeed decided to use EIGRP rather than
> BGP.
>
> b) they were testing out 4 byte ASNs and had a software issue in their IOS
>
> c) someone in Cisco wanted to download a new IOS and got frustrated with
> their new site so he/she pulled the plug. Kudos to that brave Cisco
> employee.
I'm assuming that the outage this morning was catastrophic enough that
whoever in their IT/Neteng group was working on this couldn't open a TAC
case, or there were problems opening the case and then calling back into
the TAC to get it escalated to priority 1. I might be half-kidding :)
jms
