Finding a job right before the next round of layoffs
Finding a job right before the next round of layoffs
When control-plane fate-sharing strikes again
When control-plane fate-sharing strikes again
Explaining the outage to a customer without taking any responibility
IOS XR 5.1.3 memory usage
When you discover the lab’s IGP is connected to the production network
When you discover the lab’s IGP is connected to the production network
Meeting ratio requirements based on 95th percentile
Meeting ratio requirements based on 95th percentile
IOS XR sysdb ingesting a 20 megabyte ‘commit replace’
When you discover an uptime bug 120 days into the deployment
Engineering believed they understood RSVP auto-mesh well enough
Engineering believed they understood RSVP auto-mesh well enough
When Cisco’s Web Launch Code Signing Certificate expired
Calculating the ideal 95th traffic split first day of billing cycle
When someone disrespects the Tier 1 status
Explaining routing flaps to the CEO
Explaining routing flaps to the CEO
When your IRR update misses the upstream’s prefix-filter generation batchjob by 5 minutes
Manually updating prefix-list filters
Manually updating prefix-list filters
When @BGPMon reaches out for comment on why you propagated today’s route leak
When @BGPMon reaches out for comment on why you propagated today’s route leak
Arguing about what Remote Hands delivered
“The New IP”
“The New IP”
When the Senior DBA shows he also understands BGP
Making changes to a Cisco 6500 in the default-free zone
Network Engineers fast-tracking their way up the corporate ladder
Network Engineers fast-tracking their way up the corporate ladder
Explaining classic RED AQM to a younger generation
Explaining classic RED AQM to a younger generation
When you discover that troublesome customer uses GateD 3.6
At the end of a 20-hour maintenance window
Vendor lock-in
Ostkorv
Vendor lock-in
When you see RFC7440 “TFTP Windowsize Option” just got released
When you see RFC7440 “TFTP Windowsize Option” just got released
Routing around yet another submarine cable cut
Routing around yet another submarine cable cut
Seeing a route leak hit a poorly configured IXP Route Server
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
Historic moment, 8 years ago today: Competitors helping each other when APCN, C2C, EAC, FLAG FEA, FNAL & SMW3 were cut after the Taiwan earthquake
Honest Networker 