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RE: CISCO Easter Egg
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 03:49:26 -0800
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." ChrisThis 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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Current thread:
- CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 27)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sam Etler (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Bernhard Kroenung (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Bernhard Kroenung (Oct 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sean M. Doran (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Scott Mace (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Steven J. Sobol (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Tony Li (Oct 29)
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- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 30)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sam Etler (Oct 28)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Richard Irving (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Bill Woodcock (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg John Mammen (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Sean M. Doran (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Sean M. Doran (Oct 29)