>> and all the other things single points of failure need. >> like pixie dust, chicken entrails, ... > Where did the word "single" come from, given he had an "s" > on gateways? Replicate them across POPs
glib, but ignores the massive cost and bureaucratic insanity it takes to install yet one more box in a real pop. we already go through that for the out-of-band and serial console management device(s). we have in-band access; so one uses the in-band for ssh to devices; with acls, of course. telnet stopped being an option before most of the readers of nanog ever met a router. randy
