Catastrophic failure in change approval workflow

When a route-leak is stopped at your border due to proper filtering

After the Tier-1 peering coordinator denies your peering request

Enjoying a solid redundancy scheme

Spotting a tier-1 peering coordinator at the European Peering Forum

lo0.ar5.enschede1.surf.net 3613: Nov 20 07:20:50.927 UTC: %ENV_MON-2-TEMP: Hotpoint temp sensor(slot 18) temperature has reached WARNING level at 61(C)

Requesting an RFO

When the router spontaneously reboots half-way through the firmware upgrade

iOS software downloads become available

Trying to figure out what the latest “Cloud SDN NFV Orchestration service” really is

Capacity planners scrambling to add ports before the Netflix launch and iOS release

Bringing up peering with non-RPSL-filtered route servers

Hoping nobody notices when you trip max-prefix

When you see remote hands working on your gear through the webcam

When you accidently attend a sales conference

Dutifully testing fresh CCO releases

Enabling a large BGP peer-group on SUP720 without staggering

When ISIS comes up between two different vendors

When management asks how easy it will be for the organisation to support novel feature X

Not looking at the scale on the NetFlow graphs before agreeing to a PNI

Reviewing the optical vendor’s approach to management-plane security: “SSH, what’s that?”

After having spent too much time typing raw TL1