4 Aug
2009
4 Aug
'09
12:23 p.m.
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, hank@efes.iucc.ac.il wrote:
a) they were smoking something and indeed decided to use EIGRP rather than BGP.
b) they were testing out 4 byte ASNs and had a software issue in their IOS
c) someone in Cisco wanted to download a new IOS and got frustrated with their new site so he/she pulled the plug. Kudos to that brave Cisco employee.
I'm assuming that the outage this morning was catastrophic enough that whoever in their IT/Neteng group was working on this couldn't open a TAC case, or there were problems opening the case and then calling back into the TAC to get it escalated to priority 1. I might be half-kidding :) jms