6 Sep
2002
6 Sep
'02
2:38 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, batz wrote:
To a network technician, it doesn't matter whether it's terrorists or cow tipping teenagers causing outages, as the depth of analysis required to fix the problem doesn't involve speculating about the identities and motives of the perpetrators.
It does matter. A cow might fall over and break a line card, but a savvy attacker could give you a linecard that kills chassis such that they make linecards that kill chassis.. When every piece of gear you have in a reagon is dead due to poor failure containment, you'll be wishing you had only suffered a chance failure.