A couple years ago I was investigating a problem with high CPU utilization
on a farm of 7500's at a very large wall street brokerage, (thank god it was
saturday), things were pointing to excessive UDP traffic. So it seemed like
a good idea to get a quick dump of the traffic details by logging the output
of debugging UDP. Believe it or not, I was not recovering from a major head
injury. Maybe a brain cloud...
It earned me the nickname "the debug kid". I still haven't heard the end of
it.
Erik Mintz
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 3:19 AM
Subject: "You can call yourself and internetworking engineer when . . . ."
| (tongue firmly in cheek)
|
| I have this theory that you can call yourself and internetworking
| engineer when . . . .
|
| 1. You have run a debug command on a customer router while
| investigating a performance problem, or perhaps a security issue, and
| you have caused the CPU to exceed 100% and the router has hung/crashed.
|
| 2. You have edited an ACL remotely and reapplied it only to find you
| have blocked all traffic including telnet from your desk and you are
| now locked out.
|
| 3. In both of the above scenarios you have made up some story for the
| Help Desk/1st Line Support and asked them to get the customer to reboot
| the router, claiming that "a reboot may help the performance problem .
| . blah . . blah"
|
| 4. In each of points 1 & 2 the customer in question is a major account
| that has threatened legal action against your company for failing to
| maintain SLAs, or to close the account altogether.
|
| Does this sound familiar to anyone? Have you every felt that cold
| feeling in the pit of your stomach when you entered a command and the
| screen froze? Did you blame hardware/software/customer/gremlins i.e.
| anybody and anything but not yourself?
|
| ;-)
|
| Ben
|
|
|
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| Ben Lovegrove, CCNP
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