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

Fri Oct 18 07:28:44 UTC 1996

In message <199610180717.AAA16438 at netservice.ca.navigist.com>, "Joe Rhett" writ
es:
> 
>>    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.

I know of a bunch of very useful things that originated this
way that are in production code on my cisco boxes now.  If
sprint had been in a situtation where they need a new feature X
in order to make the network run at all, because no one
had designed they network to grow like it did, I'd hate to have
bought Bay and not be able to get a timely fix.

I would definately ask my router vendor hard questions about
how quickly a fix will be released assuming I have a "network down"
condition.

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