[62494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Tucker)
Thu Sep 18 13:52:52 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:38:18 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309181703510.15418-100000@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:04:47 +0000 (GMT), E.B. Dreger
<eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> wrote:
> You have reminded me of Bay's config GUI. I shall have
> nightmares tonight.
Back in the winter of '00, I had the pleasure of working on a friend's old
Bay. He was using it for a home-based ISP, and, well, I believe that it
didn't want to do CIDR. Noone knew the Manager password, either, so much
recovery had to occur. To make matters more interesting, this was in a
garage, and the lake effect machine had kicked in. And I was being an
idiot.
I don't remember the exact details (who said the human brain doesn't have
incredible defense and self-repair mechanisms), but I sent out a narrative
regarding the situation to a group of friends, and got the following reply
back:
"""
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing in AN-DIAG
hehe...three things a Rochester sysadmin should always remember....
1) Always make a backup,
2) Always try the Manager login,
3) Always count on lake effect.
"""
It's still on my monitor.
I did get to send off a PFY to deal with a Cray router, though. -rt
--
Ryan Tucker
Network Engineer
NetAccess, Inc.
1159 Pittsford-Victor Road
Bldg. 5, Suite 140
Pittsford, New York 14534
585-419-8200
www.netacc.net
