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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Worst design decisions?
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:04:47 +0000 (GMT), E.B. Dreger <[email protected]> wrote: Back in the winter of '00, I had the pleasure of working on a friend's old Bay. He was using it for a home-based ISP, and, well, I believe that it didn't want to do CIDR. Noone knew the Manager password, either, so much recovery had to occur. To make matters more interesting, this was in a garage, and the lake effect machine had kicked in. And I was being an idiot.You have reminded me of Bay's config GUI. I shall have nightmares tonight. I don't remember the exact details (who said the human brain doesn't have incredible defense and self-repair mechanisms), but I sent out a narrative regarding the situation to a group of friends, and got the following reply back: """ Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing in AN-DIAG hehe...three things a Rochester sysadmin should always remember.... 1) Always make a backup, 2) Always try the Manager login, 3) Always count on lake effect. """ It's still on my monitor. I did get to send off a PFY to deal with a Cray router, though. -rt -- Ryan Tucker Network Engineer NetAccess, Inc. 1159 Pittsford-Victor Road Bldg. 5, Suite 140 Pittsford, New York 14534 585-419-8200 www.netacc.net
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