Too funny. I can think of one incident about 4 years back when I was in the
military and we didn't know anything about configuring cisco equipment. A
friend of mine who lurks on this list like me (you know who you are Eric)
and myself were trying to play a prank on a fellow co-worker and block
traffic on his computer. We thought of an ACL to block his IP address but
he was smart enough to change it if we did that. So we settled on creating
a filter by mac address. The problem was we couldn't apply it to the
interface so after a little reading we figured the interface needed to be in
a bridge group to apply this ACL. Now, this interface was serving our
entire building which was the Communications Squadron for the base.
Needless to say when when everyone in the building started yelling we
rebooted it and blamed it on a software crash on the router (hey these
things happen:)...
Michael Cohen
CCDP, CCNP
CCIE #6080
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Lovegrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 12:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Redspan Solutions Ltd
http://www.redspan.com
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