On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, batz wrote:
> To a network technician, it doesn't matter whether it's terrorists or cow > tipping teenagers causing outages, as the depth of analysis required to > fix the problem doesn't involve speculating about the identities and > motives of the perpetrators. It does matter. A cow might fall over and break a line card, but a savvy attacker could give you a linecard that kills chassis such that they make linecards that kill chassis.. When every piece of gear you have in a reagon is dead due to poor failure containment, you'll be wishing you had only suffered a chance failure.
