10 Apr
2003
10 Apr
'03
6:02 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:59:25AM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: [snip]
There are several networks out there using Cisco devices to achieve over six 9's availability, and the way they do that is by extensive procedure review and rigorous software testing. [snip]
Tear this page out of the notebook and highlight it. Even a small shop that "can't afford" a testbed or lab can dramatically reduce problems with formal procedures borrowed from software engineering. Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE