The Network Architect

IETF draft-previdi-filsfils-isis-segment-routing

“I thought I’d help clean up all those non-default metrics”

“Sure, we have a special QoS class for you!”

When the vendor finally shares internal bug reports

Computing dynamic LSPs on the fly for sinus shaped traffic patterns.

When the account team drops by to make reparations

SNMP bulkwalking in parallel

Expecting proper IPv6 support in Brocade’s SNMP MIBs

Playing with malformed BGP updates on an educational network

When you discover the router’s OS suffers from internal memory fragmentation

When sales is distracting you

JUNOS rib-out

When the French configure routers

replacing STP with loop-prevention-du-jour

When trying to shortcut the upgrade process

Volunteers to upgrade that remote switch without OOB

ISSU

rollback 0

When sloppy prefix filtering doesn’t affect you (this time around)

Showing off how the new provisioning system works

Upgrading to new major release to solve that bug

Applying wrong metric to that small backbone link

Deploying without BCP38

The peering coordinator

Deploying strict RPSL filtering on all IXPs

“Of course we will deliver all milestones on time”

Forgot the concurrency locks on provisioning scripts

Guiding the junior engineer through the first days on the job

When sales discovers the NOC’s redundancy scheme