[159536] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Mon Jan 14 07:50:11 2013
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, Matthew Petach
<mpetach@netflight.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:49:53 +0000
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1301130907410.12098@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike@swm.pp.se]
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Matthew Petach wrote:
>=20
> > Thank goodness ethernet never has problems with negotiation going
> awry,
> > and coming up with mismatched duplexes, and vendors never had to
> > implement "no negotiation-auto" in their configs because you couldn't
> > count on everyone's implementations working together just absolutely
> > perfectly the first time on bootup. Yes, it sure is a good thing
> > ethernet never has issues like that which would cripple your ability
> to
> > get a box up and running at 2am.
>=20
> Has this happened to you with equipment designed and manufactured the
> past
> 5 years?
This happened to me just last month.
Jamie
