When 600 alerts land in your mailbox
Waiting for your colleagues to show up in the morning after a particularly hairy maintenance
When the process crashes after ‘debug bgp policy-execution run’
Installing an ostensibly hitless SMU
At the IOS XR self-help group
At the IOS XR self-help group
The CTO selecting Cisco ASR 9k as edge device
The CTO selecting Cisco ASR 9k as edge device
When Cisco asks you to remove the comments from your config to make it load
When Cisco asks you to remove the comments from your config to make it load
Spotting 100.64.0.0/10 more specifics in the DFZ
Spotting 100.64.0.0/10 more specifics in the DFZ
Why hot-potato routing usually gives better end-to-end performance
Why hot-potato routing usually gives better end-to-end performance
Unfiltered eBGP sessions
Installing the SMU to fix your last catastrophic failure
Yet another IOS XR BGP bug
Responding to a security incident after a 3AM alert
When your favorite startup is acquired by Cisco
When looking at the new IOS XR internals
MTU mismatch between router and switch
After launching “configure replace ftp://host/largeconfigfile force” on Arista EOS
“debug ip packet” on a 9600 baud console line
Being single-homed behind Level3 this morning
Turning up a BGP customer without any filters
When the vendor demonstrates smooth interoperability
Letting the junior engineer run the maintenance
Getting all work done within the maintenance window
Navigating bugfixes in XR release notes
Navigating bugfixes in XR release notes
When the transport provider doesn’t bother sending a notification for their “scheduled” maintenance window
When the transport provider doesn’t bother sending a notification for their “scheduled” maintenance window
Refusing sales’ request for a custom configuration
Refusing sales’ request for a custom configuration
Discovering Spanning Tree in the core of your latest acquisition
Following your competitor too closely
Testdriving quagga
Testdriving quagga
How sales approach a newly registered ASN
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