[20934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CISCO Easter Egg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Oct 29 17:55:52 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:26:53 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.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.balink.com>; from Martin, Christian on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:52:02AM -0500
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:52:02AM -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
I think the idea is to give the engineers an excuse to work on the Cisco
where otherwise there would be none.
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