
Upgraded edge capacity but not the backbone

Upgraded edge capacity but not the backbone

Patching bugs in your coworker’s router login PHP script

Getting ready for a greenfield deployment

Dealing with automation scripts on a monday

Cisco Sup720 reacting to flapping peers at LINX

Explaining MITM attacks to your manager

“Review Shows No Congestion on Verizon Network”

Dealing with network maintenance when your coworkers are on holiday

Faithfully following the TAC’s debug procedure

ping 255.255.255.255

When your mailserver is greylisted

When the management blade doesn’t come back after a software upgrade

Vendor interoperability in the real world

Patiently sitting through an install via Supermicro’s terrible Java-based IPMI garbage

Vendor interoperability in the ideal world

Cisco 6509 boot failure after forgetting to upgrade DFC ROMMON

New management blade in that old chassis

Asymmetrically routed packet flow passing through stateful firewalls at the network edge

When your specification moves to IETF RFC status

When it’s ‘Cloud’-enabled!

Routing with openospfd

The vendor when ISSU worked outside lab environment

Post “commit complete” disaster on virtual chassis

The dance moves required to get late change control requests accepted

When running TE tunnels in segment routing core

Cogent’s participation in the internet community

Synchronicity in SDH networks

How Cisco feels when you renew SMARTnet on second-hand hardware

When management rushes a product to market due to peer pressure

When seeing yet another “IPv6 adoption is lagging” lightning talk