Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)

Fri Oct 18 07:17:31 UTC 1996

>    But you can't get one engineer to hack something into the router
>    code for you on just his say-so anymore. But once you could. I dunno
>    maybe you still can, but I think you have to have megabucks behind 
>    you to do it.

> Yes, you can, but you have to do it under the table and via direct
> contacts.  And a bottle of cask strength single malt will help.  ;-)

You know, I find it hard to think of this as a feature - especially
given the number of times the "quick hack" broke something else. And
it's always missing the next release of the software.

It takes an Act of God to get Bay to release a fix - but it works when
they release it, and it works in the next full release too.