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Re: Spanning tree melt down ?

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Fri Nov 29 14:40:29 2002

Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
> It appears what really happened is that they put an emergency room doctor
> in charge of a critical system in which he, in all likelyhood, had
> limited training. In the medical system, he was trusted because of he was
> a doctor. The sad thing about this is that there seems to be no
> realization that having experienced networking folks in this job might
> have averted a situation that could have been (almost certainly
> was?) deleterious to patient care.

I think it's safe to say there was competent staff involved before the
incident and everyone knew exactly how bad the network was and how likely a
failure was.  It's very rare for people to not know exactly how bad off they
are.

The question is whether management considers this worth spending resources,
either money or manpower, to fix.

S





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