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18 messages in edu.merit.nanogRe: CISCO Easter Egg| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Martin, Christian | Oct 27, 1998 11:38 pm | |
| Sam Etler | Oct 28, 1998 7:47 am | |
| Martin, Christian | Oct 28, 1998 7:51 am | |
| Bernhard Kroenung | Oct 28, 1998 9:40 am | |
| Jonathan A. Zdziarski | Oct 28, 1998 11:57 am | |
| Sean M. Doran | Oct 29, 1998 2:20 am | |
| Martin, Christian | Oct 29, 1998 2:52 am | |
| Roeland M.J. Meyer | Oct 29, 1998 3:49 am | |
| Martin, Christian | Oct 29, 1998 4:32 am | |
| John Mammen | Oct 29, 1998 5:18 am | |
| Richard Irving | Oct 29, 1998 6:22 am | |
| Bill Woodcock | Oct 29, 1998 8:20 am | |
| Scott Mace | Oct 29, 1998 8:34 am | |
| Tony Li | Oct 29, 1998 11:04 am | |
| Steven J. Sobol | Oct 29, 1998 2:26 pm | |
| Sean M. Doran | Oct 29, 1998 4:18 pm | |
| Sean M. Doran | Oct 29, 1998 4:21 pm | |
| Jay R. Ashworth | Oct 30, 1998 9:04 am |
| Subject: | Re: CISCO Easter Egg | |
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| From: | Sean M. Doran (sm...@clock.org) | |
| Date: | Oct 29, 1998 2:20:59 am | |
| List: | edu.merit.nanog | |
Bernhard Kroenung wrote:
| One of the nice features of a CISCO-Router is the ability to simulate a
| crash of the system - just type "test crash" - and they crash happily ever
after
|
This was put in to allow a small handful of engineers in various companies to load new software into boxes outside the maintenance windows imposed upon them by misguided but fanatical operations management.
This particular feature saved the Internet on several occasions.
Sean.