[c-nsp] Prepare for router Wednesday

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:46:58PM +1100, Whisper wrote:
> I've decided I do not like Router Wednesday
> 
> 1 or 2 advisories in a day and you will probably read them thoroughly, like
> you should.
> 
> 5 or more of them more or less altogether and I think a lot of people will
> only start binning them, as we don't have the time to dedicate to reading 5
> fairly long e-mails all in 1 go.
> 
> What do you guys think?

I found it useful.  

Yes, it took me some hours to go through the advisories and decide which 
ones apply and which do not, and then to decide what to do about it ("ACL 
bad packets, schedule reboot").  But that's not so much different from my
normal work - "something unexpected happens and I spend time to fix it".

For us, 4 of the advisories did not apply anyway, as we don't do things
like "OSPF sham-links plus MPLS" :)

Imagine you had multiple advisories apply - and you got them in a months
distance: all upgrades done, next round of upgrades needed on a different
set of boxes (or even the same ones).

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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