When adopting a new 100GbE switch, it’s important to follow gradual introduction procedures to keep your existing cats from becoming stressed and developing RDMA aggression.

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@dan I don't see any lies in this statement.
@dan Make sure to enable support for chonky frames.
@dan scratch the backplane front to back only.
@dan has Miso accepted the new member of the family?
@dan I did the same with Emma and our Juniper PTX1000 100G router last year
@alyx @dan Cats love network equipment!
@catsalad @dan emma is fascinated by zelazny
@catsalad @dan she also likes to sit on network switches
@catsalad @dan and she likes to look at even more servers
@alyx @catsalad @dan That cat looks like she has some *opinions* about technical choices being made.
@alyx @catsalad @dan most people just scare their cats with cucumbers.
@alyx @catsalad @dan Old photo, previous cat:
@smartperson @alyx @catsalad @dan I massively reduced my personal collection recently, I only kept one SGI:

@davefischer @alyx @catsalad @dan nice O2, and nice cat. Proves the "slightly elevated warm" attractor theory.

Here's my old man when he was younger, sitting on a shitty D-Link

@mr_daemon I still have that Logitech (mine is Z-2300 model) speaker!
@alyx @catsalad @dan thank you so much for these pics they're awesome
@alyx @catsalad @dan this should be the pic for some http.cat status code, i just dont know which ​
@bread @catsalad @dan @alyx Emma looking at the opened up zelazny is perfect for 500: internal server error tbh
@alyx @catsalad @dan "I heard this uses Cat-5, I'm just waiting on the other four."
@alyx @catsalad@infosec.exchange @dan non-blocking

@alyx

do they prefer Purrracuda Networks, Ubikitti, or Hissco hardware?

@catsalad @dan

@alyx @catsalad @dan who of them is emma and who is zelazny

@alina @catsalad @dan emma is the cat, whose website is at https://emma.pet and she's on fedi as @emma

zelazny is a former freenode server

Emma <3 - Home

pictures of Emma #cattax

@alyx @catsalad @dan Katze und OpenProjects IRC! 😻
@catsalad @alyx @dan
hey
@lexi do you still have a link for that rack mount cat bed by any chance :3
@catsalad @alyx @dan That cable modem is BLESSED by the Great Supreme Catatonic
@dan i made the horrible mistake of adopting a network switch without any gradual introduction procedures. by the end of the night, my existing cat, thinking it was defending its territory, had unfortunately taken the switch's life with a swift crunch to the vitals. the switch had no way to fight back, as it is optimized for connecting network devices, not combat with deadly animals such as the common house cat, and thus quickly went down without putting up a fight at all. i quickly rushed the networking equipment to the veterinarian, however it was already long gone by then. even though i only had the switch for one night, i had already grown attached to it. i decided to have the switch's remains cremated and spread out among the network closet, causing my co-workers to ask what the fuck i was doing, leading to my eventually firing due to my erratic behavior.
@dan does this feline wear a ESD collar? :)

@dan

They call them CAT cables for a reason.

@dan Unfortunately his cat was named "CAT 5E" so it wasn't a good choice to use with this switch.