Network died, hard, during company Christmas party

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Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it

Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which we cushion your entry to the working week with tales ofreaders having worse days than you. So kick off your shoes and socks, make fists with your toes, and read on.

As our story begins, the shiny new 7000s were in place and operating in parallel with the existing 4500s. All that remained was to"move all the root bridges for the vlans from the 4500 to the 7000." Also, the plan was to switch the Nexus switches to use VTP, or VLAN trunking protocol. That should, Roy believed, involve sending a single command to the main switch – again, not a big deal for a resourceful guy like Roy – and the change would ripple out across the network.

 

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