On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, h...@efes.iucc.ac.il wrote:
a) they were smoking something and indeed decided to use EIGRP rather than
BGP.
b) they were testing out 4 byte ASNs and had a software issue in their IOS
c) someone in Cisco wanted to download a new IOS and got frustrated with
their new site so he/she pulled the plug. Kudos to that brave Cisco
employee.
I'm assuming that the outage this morning was catastrophic enough that
whoever in their IT/Neteng group was working on this couldn't open a TAC
case, or there were problems opening the case and then calling back into
the TAC to get it escalated to priority 1. I might be half-kidding :)
jms