back to article WAN, bam, thank you... oh @£$%. We've gone dead. Drop the burger. RUUUUUN!

This Damn War image via Shutterstock Big, global WAN roll-outs have their hazards. Size is one of them, but you can deal with this with effective project planning and management. Complexity is another, but combining design and a team of highly effective and competent engineers can address that one too. And of course there …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Good calls!

    Service first. Troubleshooting for root cause before implementing change. Rare issues, based on complex config issues are edge cases need time to find (and often not replicable in the lab).

    This is first rate engineering.

  2. simon_c

    And the third moral

    And the third moral is have monitoring detect from both devices in an active/passive pair when they think they have switched from active to passive.

  3. Tom Chiverton 1

    This should have been posted on a Friday ! Much better than the normal ones...

  4. streaky
    Boffin

    Split Brain..

    They'd got into a “split brain” setup for some reason

    Because Rule 1: never run things in pairs?

  5. Alistair
    Windows

    Split Brain

    Rule # 1

    *TWO* heartbeat paths.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Good taste in burgers

    Five Guys is excellent.

    1. 2460 Something

      Re: Good taste in burgers

      Five Guys always reminds me of Michael McIntyre's 'Herb & Spice' skit now though ...

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Moral #4: Security programs are jealous critters. If you're going to be running 2, test them somewhere safe first.

  8. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    Will probably never have the experience of working with dual firewalls and the such, but I still note the lessons learnt here.

    Because you never know when you'll need an itty-bitty bit of knowledge that may save the company a lot of $$$.

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