Ryan L wrote: > It's a source of anxiety for me these days. > > Generally means no patching has occurred and likely vulnerabilities gone > unaddressed. ;) > > Can barely keep up anymore. > > 10 years is impressive though. That's like a hundred in switch years.
10 years is impressive, but I don't miss the "old days". They were the days of too little bandwidth and crashing daemons, of immature protocol standards and rubbish implementations, of too little ram, trash cpus and underspecced fiber gear, all costing too much money. Of staying up too late night after night because things would fall over if you didn't, of leased lines and of stupid telcos trying to stop any innovation beyond ISDN. Of ATM, frame relay, X.25 and V.35 and anything which looked like a modem. Of Windows 3.11 and versions of Linux which couldn't handle arp to save their life and of having to rebuild SunOS4 libresolv because the standard version was so horribly broken. Of sendmail and SLIP and INN on machines with not enough disk space. And X.400. I will stop there because OSI was so bad that I don't want to remember any more right now. If anyone is interested in a celebratory bonfire of these horrors, count me in so I can grimly stamp on the ashes. Not bitter. Nick _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
