From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:11:06 -0700
On Aug 17, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
I recall Cisco code bugs that were fixed in semi- real-time, and quotes from tli: "Code still warm from compiler. Confidence level: Boots in lab."
IETF Dallas, 1995 I think. MCI Reston engg and Cisco (Ravi and others) in the terminal room cutting a new image of IS-IS for us because we'd tripped on the 24-day timer bug wherein all adjacencies would drop. Loaded on production routers that evening to fix the problem... good times :)
I remember back in 1993 or 1994 getting a note from Tony Li chastising us for running BGP4 code that was over a WEEK old. How could we possibly expect things to work with code that far out of date? The amazing part is that BGP4 not only worked, but was very stable less then a month later when NSFnet shut down an se had to go to BGP4 to peer with everyone (like MCI, Sprint, NASA, and UUnet). Yep, it booted in the lab, all right. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751