At midnight on Sunday night, the boss and I headed out to hit the datacenter in time for the maintenance window. 8 hours later, the network latency went from 60-100ms down to <1ms. And that's without bringing in any new equipment.

The main lesson learned here is that even though the ProCurve 3400cl switch does support layer-3 routing, under no circumstances should you ever use it. It sucks and it's slow. If you have anything beyond the most infinitesimal amount of routed traffic, you will make that unit sweat like R. Kelly at a Girl Scout troop meeting.

On a related note, today was the first time I'd put in almost half my 40 hours for the week BY NOON ON MONDAY.