My kids complained once that my husband and I knew too much about technology; we were the wrong generation.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather

mae--east etherswitches were bad enough.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather

Recently (last year) found my certificates for Xylan OmniSwitch Engineer. Thinking I should put them back on the CV.

Did you ever do the training at the Dover NH location?

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather the garage era. Then DEC Gigaswitches

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@johntimaeus @petrillic @wendynather

there are certain things you never put on your resume for fear someone might ask you to do it again.

i once built/programmed a nortel meridian PBX. never again.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@johntimaeus @paul_ipv6 @wendynather I didn’t. Spent most of my time with engineering in Callabasas? I think.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather

yup. boone garage. good times.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather we all make mistakes

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather there was a time when you could fit all the backbone engineers in the world in a bus. And sometimes we did.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather

Serial or parallel?

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather of course that was also a time when I could call Tony Li at all hours with a problem.
Cisco customer support isn’t that good any more.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather

one of the really early NANOGs at merit, folks realized that a bomb at that meeting and the internet might never work again. probably 50 folks at the meeting?

i do remember a day when we got a bug fix from tony li and we loaded it based on "boots in the lab" and rebooted about 70% of all the core backbone routers from a terminal room at a usenix conference. didn't make the papers, no one fired us.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather

if you weren't running a cisco ios load with a cisco engineer's initials in the version string, you weren't a tier 1 isp.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@paul_ipv6 @petrillic @wendynather

Putting in a ticket on a RocketPort terminal card and getting a call from Ted T'so, who had a driver fix in about 30 minutes made me realize how small the world was at that time.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@johntimaeus @petrillic @wendynather

yeah. we'd find bugs and talk to tony or paul or dino, then they'd have us put in a ticket w tac and email them them ticket number so they could grab it.

when cisco "outlawed" talking directly to engineers, life really started to suck.

had similar relationships with the sun foks.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @paul_ipv6 @wendynather

The Dover training space was really nice. Top floor of an old fabric mill, owned by NorthWestern Mutual Insurance.
They stored some of the art collection there.
Renoir ballerina sketches hanging next to the elevators.

The cafeteria was good too.

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@paul_ipv6 @petrillic @wendynather

Names I'd forgotten.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather I think every router in the fleet ran a slightly custom build. Definitely edge v peer v core. Just fell over a lot.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic @johntimaeus @wendynather

the internet is the "dancing bear" of networks.

[ted_duffield@mastodon.social]

@wollman @wendynather I’m 82 and I’m the main tech support for my friends and family.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@paul_ipv6 @johntimaeus @wendynather so much more fun before the MBA and VC got involved.