the last hurrahs of Mercury retrograde

[serinde]

There is no way in which this morning is not crap.

Eat flaming death, Summit24 switch which runs the whole office OH WAIT YOU DID.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Don't use the purple hardware."

[mangosteen]

"Don't use the purple hardware."

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

So this is when you get out the reasonably identical backup hardware, which you may not actually have, and get the old config file from RANCID[*] in the center of all things down in the colo that you can't get to because the switch is dead, if it was even being polled in the first place. And then there'd be, oh, two dozen cables to unplug and replug.

See how helpful I am. (-:


[*] This one (http://www.google.com/search?q=rancid+cisco), not this one (http://www.google.com/search?q=rancid). Readers may have been momentarily confused.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that's not wholly dissimilar to what Mr. Networks did. (In which it is also discovered that part of the reason for my xterm's occasional random hangs may have been the extreme dodginess of the cable from byzantium to the Summit.)