One exclamation mark. Then two. Then a cascade of them, a waterfall of ASCII relief pouring down the screen. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The router began its reload. The familiar sequence of ROMmon, POST, and then—
The prompt asked: Destination filename [C2900-universalk9-mz.spa.157-3.m8.bin]? He hit Enter. Download C2900-universalk9-mz.spa.157-3.m8.bin --INSTALL
It looked normal. Innocent. He tentatively typed show version .
Somewhere, in a million routers, a million blue LEDs were flickering to life. One exclamation mark
And at the very bottom, a new line he had never seen before:
Marco leaned back. His coffee cup trembled in his hand. "What the hell is 'Neural Routing Protocol'?" in a million routers
Until today.
