[AusNOG] Looking for employees? Melbourne based

[Lloyd Wood]

Guilty as charged.

(What's the surest way to crash a router? Turn it on.)

On 11 Oct 2013, at 22:49, Ben Buxton <bb.ausnog at bb.cactii.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Peter Childs <pchilds at staff.iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>> I assume the correct answer is 'Cisco or Juniper?'
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> Close. But then an interviewer would follow up with 'whats the difference?'. Then you would explain the differences in terms of what the counters actually count - layer 3 vs layer 2. Dont forget to account for preamble, inter packet gap, .1q, etc as they all eat into the line rate.
> If you're a real smart-arse, you would conclude that a 96 bit counter would never overflow as the vendor who chose that size probably has buggy software that would crash well before then...
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> BB
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