That moment my BGP session dropped during a live demo at a Chicago conference

I was standing in front of 50 people at the Windy City ISP Summit last Tuesday showing off our new peering setup when my router decided to flap the session three times, and I had to pretend it was a planned failover test while frantically SSHing from my phone under the podium. Has anyone else had a public demo go sideways like that?

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anna_carter531mo ago

Oh no, that's brutal! I've been there too, had a firewall decide to reboot right as I was showing off a new VPN setup at a small tech meetup.

noah_walker161mo agoTop Commenter

And the worst part is always that awkward silence while you're trying to frantically troubleshoot with everyone watching you! I once had a projector die during a presentation about cloud redundancy, talk about irony!