May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
The Network Programmability and Automation Ecosystem
We all have that one story we tell on ourselves about some stupid mistake that brought down a network segment or even an entire network. Here’s mine.
Thirty years ago, I was sitting in an office in Albuquerque, logged in to a router in Santa Fe, making some minor, supposedly nondisruptive modifications to the WAN interface. I wanted to see the changes I had made to the config, and I got as far as typing sh of the IOS show command before realizing I was still in interface config mode and needed to back out of it before entering the show command. But instead of backspacing or taking some other moderately intelligent action, I reflexively hit Enter.
The router, of course, interpreted ...