Sales pitching backbone capacity

Managing DTAG peering ratio’s

“Of course we will accept and honor your MEDs”

“Surely we can handle any DDoS attack”

Depeering your direct competitor

Taking over an on-call duty shift from a co-worker

Explaining the NANOG posting guidelines to the new colleague

Working out your 3AM script’s dependencies

the fallout after discovering a new Brocade reload bug

Adding new device support to RANCID

Deploying untested metric scheme across the network

Using ytti’s oxidized to pull router configurations

Walking the security auditor through your policies

When you are not allowed to turboboot into new IOS XR

When some sales dude proposes you disconnect your other upstream

When an accurate and detailed IRR autnum is discovered

Product manager reaffirms instructions to NOC team about peering with potential customers