[77280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: netblazer Was: baiting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Mon Jan 17 10:52:25 2005
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: "'wsimpson@greendragon.com'" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:14:24 EST."
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:48:41 +0000
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> (And I was serious, not sarcastic, about the 'blazer. YMMV,)
Martin,
That's OK, I never got work for a router vendor after that, a solution
that I've now completeley generalized, having discovered a trivial but
obscure and beautiful technique, as any good mathematician must.
However, since I was most of the QA for the NetBlazer, and whiled away my
paid hours with making tcl/tk scripts to irritate units under test, which
was somewhat novel in 1991, silly stuff like bringing up and tearing down
a connection all night long to prove the existance of a memory leak, and
networks to prove the function of rip, I'm curious what part of the
NetBlazer was a piece of shit?
In this period of time, the White Knights built the InterOp shownets and
we had comparative access to quite a lot of vendor product, and know that
the red buttons on Wellfleets were correctly positioned on the front, for
easy access. We used NetBlazers for dial-up outbound (we were topologically
quite diverse by '91, our last show in the San Jose facility) and I don't
recall anything ... resembling the behavior that I could characterize as
POS like function.
Data please, but off-list. Bill will be interested too I expect.
Eric
