[20884] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CISCO Easter Egg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Thu Oct 29 06:16:14 1998
From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
To: "'Sean M. Doran'" <smd@clock.org>, "'horke@regio.net'"
<horke@regio.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 05:52:02 -0500
Sean,
Why would they use this feature for that purpose? To fake a router
crash in order to load new software? Interesting way of "breaking the
rules."
Chris
>
> This was put in to allow a small handful of engineers in
> various companies
> to load new software into boxes outside the maintenance windows
> imposed upon them by misguided but fanatical operations management.
>
> This particular feature saved the Internet on several occasions.
>
> Sean.
>
