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Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist?
vvaduva writes "The ugly truth is that many network guys secretly work on production equipment all the time, or test things on production networks when they face impossible deadlines. Management often expects us to get a job done but refuse to provide funds for expensive lab equipment, test circuits and for reasonable time to get testing done before moving equipment or configs into production. How do most of you handle such situations, and what recommendation do you have for creating a network test lab on the cheap, especially when core network devices are vendor-centric, like Cisco?"
If by "make it that way" you mean "turd", I layed down two of them last night. Blocked up the toilet real good, they did. What's the deal with low flow toilets? I don't consider myself a prolific shitter, but most of my brown trout need two or three flushes to go down. Where's the water savings in that? Granted, if all you're doing is draining the limber log, a standard toilet wastes water, but in that case I generally don't flush anyhow. Yellow is mellow but brown goes down -- words to live by in both theory and practice. By the way, black people don't like the word "nigger".