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On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:20:44AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:09:05PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > > > > If the software MTBF would be better, convergence would not be an issue. > > As long as it's an operational hazard to run core boxes (with some > > vendors anyway) with older piece of code than six months, you end up > > engineering convergence into the networks. > > Odd, I think most people would say it's an operational hazard to run code > newer than 6 months old, or at least with less than 6 months of testing on > any particular image. With all the recent software secuirty advisories that affect many vendors (ssh, snmp, etc..) running anything older than that is a blatant security risk for anyones network. Not keeping up-to-date on these items and thinking you're fine is just asking to be brought down. > How they're able to completely break so many critically important things > within 2 weeks between a bugfix code rev is still beyond me. :) I'm not sure what vendor you are refering to, but i've not seen any problems like this anytime in the past 6+ months. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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