Re: Art and Tech is madness

[Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com>]

There’s also this gem from 2005 or 2007 days. I’ve heard Cisco staff was involved in its creation.

http://www.mattzrelak.com/mp3/t1down.htm

—Chris

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> See below for high value of the list, both items are very pleasing
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 6:10 AM Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il> wrote:
> On 05/09/2019 08:09, Kasper Adel wrote:
>
> No.  This is art & tech from 12 years ago:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
>
> -Hank
>
> > In SPRING a time when segment and routing had no mismatch, a time when isis and ospf ate a forbidden encap, all they 
> > had to do was forward bgp like its hot, but crazy flapping doesnt leave any real LDP without some real FSM check, My 
> > dynamic unnumbered neighbor.
> >
> >
> >
> > Suddenly, Out of order, an AS is overridden, we see frames dropping, we sniff a bit and it turns out, sfps are 
> > burning, we are in a place right now where ping and pong are jittery, their latency is tested, they cant strengthen 
> > their icmp bond with a warm bfd message, how can they keep everyone in ACK, safe from teardown and dampening, with 
> > this kind of ixp relationship??! but oh admin, we know forwarding works in its own mysterious ways. We are left with 
> > two non rfc compliant scavengers, bastard 802.1ah fools in a leaky yet shaped, buffer display of some runts and 
> > nimbles, and a giant too. 
> >
> > They start their life of a packet, leaving one interface to a neighbor, from an adjacency to a peer, an endless 
> > loop, its a prefix hijack, but as they move from one stack to another, finding their way through a tunnel of memory 
> > failures and RMAs, one hell of an LSP ride, through firewall horrors and MTU mismatches, leaving behind, a sea of 
> > syslog messages and snmp alarms. Anyway, Their ttl expired and one funny access list abruptly denies them life, 
> > sending them to Null0, where they can be peacefully discarded.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thats what tech does to yeh