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Re: Spanning tree melt down ?
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:29:39 -0600
Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <dgold () FDFNet Net>
It appears what really happened is that they put an emergency room doctor in charge of a critical system in which he, in all likelyhood, had limited training. In the medical system, he was trusted because of he was a doctor. The sad thing about this is that there seems to be no realization that having experienced networking folks in this job might have averted a situation that could have been (almost certainly was?) deleterious to patient care.
I think it's safe to say there was competent staff involved before the incident and everyone knew exactly how bad the network was and how likely a failure was. It's very rare for people to not know exactly how bad off they are. The question is whether management considers this worth spending resources, either money or manpower, to fix. S
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