Explaining the outage to a customer without taking any responibility

When you discover the lab’s IGP is connected to the production network

Meeting ratio requirements based on 95th percentile

Engineering believed they understood RSVP auto-mesh well enough

Explaining routing flaps to the CEO

Manually updating prefix-list filters

When @BGPMon reaches out for comment on why you propagated today’s route leak

“The New IP”

Network Engineers fast-tracking their way up the corporate ladder

Explaining classic RED AQM to a younger generation
Ostkorv

Vendor lock-in

When you see RFC7440 “TFTP Windowsize Option” just got released

Routing around yet another submarine cable cut

Seeing a route leak hit a poorly configured IXP Route Server

Historic moment, 8 years ago today: Competitors helping each other when APCN, C2C, EAC, FLAG FEA, FNAL & SMW3 were cut after the Taiwan earthquake

What every network architect aspires to