Not only interesting, but dishonest. Forcing a company to spend money on false premise is tantamount to theft or conversion. That cisco gives them the opportunity for doing so is aiding an abetting. Particularly so when the upgrade cost adds to cisco's revenue. In other words, I sincerely hope that you are joking. Yes, I'm a "suit" and only a part-time operator/developer these days. At 05:52 AM 10/29/98 -0500, Martin, Christian wrote:

Sean,

Why would they use this feature for that purpose? To fake a router crash in order to load new software? Interesting way of "breaking the rules."

Chris

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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.

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