[50546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the PAIX Palo Alto taking a dump?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Sat Aug 3 02:49:25 2002
To: Lane Patterson <lpatterson@equinix.com>
Cc: "'Scott Granados'" <scott@graphidelix.net>,
Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:55:06 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 23:48:50 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I think a rigorous hardware/software support plan, aggressive
> management of vendor support, sufficient test lab, and conservative
> upgrade process are just as essential to stability.
No disagreement there, with the addition of a plan for when something
slips through all the aforementioned. I'm preaching to the choir, I'm
sure.
> Of course what I really want for Xmas is a Force10 box ;-)
I'd really like one for Christmas, too; it'll be very interesting to
see if I can feel love for an input-buffered cross-bar switch again.
Stephen
