in case anyone is interested, my answer below -- ""The Long and Winding Road"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Saw this one today. It caused me to scratch my head in puzzlement for a > moment, until I remembered something. > > Today's puzzle - why was I scratching my head in puzzlement, and what was it > I remembered? > > High levels - you don't get to play. Let the newbies try their hands. > > > "During the maintenance window, a XXXX Company engineer loaded an incorrect > routing table into a Cisco router. This mis-configuration was propagated > across the XXXX network resulting in major link failures. As a result, > links become overloaded and for all practical purposes were shut down. It > appears that Cisco's involvement was limited to TAC support to help resolve > the outage. A router mis-configuration during XXXXX Company's maintenance > window caused the outage. Cisco Hardware and IOS software problems are not > a > factor." > >
CL: I scratched my head in puzzlement regarding the engineer who "loaded an incorrect routing table into a Cisco router" Never having done that and wondering why anyone would need to. CL: Then I remembered that ISP's tend to deal in static routes. So there are probebly any number of reference files containing the "ip route etc" tables for each device. CL a couple of folks reminded me off line that in the ISP world it would be more likely that engineers would load any router-specific configurations, such as BGP neighbor statements and static routes from existing test files maintained separately from the routers themselves. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=55400&t=55218 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
