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July 9, 2015

TAC Tales #4: Airline Outage

I don’t advertise this blog so I’m always amazed that people even find it. I figured the least-read articles on this blog were my “TAC Tales,” but someone recently commented that they wanted to see more… Well, I’m happy to oblige. The recent events at United reminded me of a case where operations were down […]

TAC TalesTagged Cat 6500, EIGRP, TAC, united airlines outage4 Comments on TAC Tales #4: Airline Outage
April 25, 2014September 28, 2021

TAC Tales #2: How to troubleshoot

The case came in P1, and I knew it would be a bad one. One thing you learn as a TAC engineer is that P1 cases are often the easiest. A router is down, send an RMA. But I knew this P1 would be tough because it had been requeued three times. The last engineer […]

TAC TalesTagged aaa, HTTS, mlppp, ppp, TAC, troubleshooting4 Comments on TAC Tales #2: How to troubleshoot
September 13, 2013September 1, 2016

Tac Tales #1: Case routing

Before I worked at TAC, I was pretty careless about how I filled in a TAC case online. For example, when I had to select the technology I was dealing with in the drop-down menu, if I didn’t see exactly what I had then I would go ahead and pick something at random and figure […]

TAC TalesTagged case routing, HTTS, TAC4 Comments on Tac Tales #1: Case routing

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