Steve, We are all human and can tend to go off on someone especially when bad things happen. I've been in your shoes before and I can certainly understand your side. It shows you are a man of good character by posting this publicly. Thanks for the links, I am sure I will learn some stuff I didn't know before.
Richey -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:st...@ibctech.ca] Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:51 PM To: Richey Cc: Cisco-NSP Mailing List Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Metro E best practices Richey, I am very sorry. My response is not typical of my normal actions. I've had a significant tragedy happen, and I completely took it out on you. This is no excuse, but nonetheless. There are no words that can describe how bad that I feel. If words could describe it, they would be "ashamed", "embarrassed" and "loss of respect for myself". I still can't believe that I acted in such a way in front of all of my peers. Instead of hiding, I thought I'd respond and learn a little about humility, and being humble. > I did some searches but > most everything I keep turning up is marketing speak. Indeed. > As to re-tasking some > routers that are no longer in use, are you kidding me? Am I the only one > that finds it wasteful to take a perfectly good box and change it's role? No, you are not. I've done the same thing, and I still do. > I was looking for some best practices, not how to do it, hence the "Best > Practices" and not "How do I setup a metro e from scratch?" Ok, the books and docs that I've read over the last couple of years that I recommend highly (given that I don't know exactly what type of info you are looking for): http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587050412 http://www.amazon.com/Router-Security-Strategies-Securing-Network/dp/1587053 365 ...and the mandatory ones: - http://www.armware.dk/RFC/bcp/bcp38.html - http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-blackhole-urpf-04 Steve ps. I'm truly sorry, Richey. I apologize to you, and everyone on this list. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/