RE: CISCO Easter Egg

["Martin, Christian" <CMartin () mercury balink com>]

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

> 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.