On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Howard Jones wrote:
The good old days of absolutely shocking software testing...
e.g. the Ascend Max software build that never released IPs from the assigned
client IP pool - 200 user connections later, the helpdesk goes crazy. Or the
awesome Nortel Baystack bugs where pressing the "wrong" key in the "wrong"
menu would just crash the whole stack. Both in GA firmware. Nortel had a
whole selection of similar issues in their errata.
If we're going down this road, Bay Networks is a vendor that gave me fits
of rage in the mid-late 90s. Bay Networks had a default CLI that was
slightly north of useless at the time. Anything useful on those routers
had to be done through a GUI app called Site Manager (or Site Mangler, or
Site Damager).
In an effort to try to compete with IOS, they released an optional CLI
shell called BCC (their name: Bay Command Console. Our name: Blatant
Cisco Clone). It tried to emulate the look and feel of IOS on a Bay
router, but at least in that very early version, was sorely lacking.
Typing "delete ?" would not bring up a list of options to follow "delete",
but instead it caused the router to delete every route entry it had and
knock itself offline until it was rebooted. Great fun in a lights-out
facility and no out-of-band console access to the box :|
jms
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