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Re: huawei


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:45:46 -0400

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:35:08 -0400, Scott Helms said:

In $random_deployment they have no idea what the topology is and odd
behavior is *always *noticed over time.

Severe selection bias in that statement.  Odd *noticed* behavior is always
noticed. There's literally *no* way to know how many times somebody's
looked at a packet trace trying to diagnose something else and failed to
notice something subtly odd. (Donald Rumsfeld correctly identified these
as "unknown unknowns").

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