CISCO Easter Egg

Martin, Christian CMartin at mercury.balink.com
Thu Oct 29 10:52:02 UTC 1998


Sean,

Why would they use this feature for that purpose?  To fake a router
crash in order to load new software?  Interesting way of "breaking the
rules."

Chris

> 
> This was put in to allow a small handful of engineers in 
> various companies
> to load new software into boxes outside the maintenance windows
> imposed upon them by misguided but fanatical operations management.
> 
> This particular feature saved the Internet on several occasions.
> 
> 	Sean.
> 



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