[20886] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CISCO Easter Egg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Oct 29 07:03:14 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 03:49:26 -0800
To: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "'Sean M. Doran'" <smd@clock.org>, "'horke@regio.net'" <horke@regio.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=BAIS%l=MERCURY-981029105202Z-2964@mercury.balin
k.com>
Not only interesting, but dishonest. Forcing a company to spend money on
false premise is tantamount to theft or conversion. That cisco gives them
the opportunity for doing so is aiding an abetting. Particularly so when
the upgrade cost adds to cisco's revenue. In other words, I sincerely hope
that you are joking. Yes, I'm a "suit" and only a part-time
operator/developer these days.
At 05:52 AM 10/29/98 -0500, Martin, Christian wrote:
>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.
>>
>
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