Because he does not know about a bug in checkpoint he
is a phony CCIE? In case you jave forgotten, CCIE
means
certified CISCO Internetwork Expert... give the guy a
break
Nnanna
--- Mark Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Raul-
>
> I brought down the local checkpoint firewall by
> pinging an large number of
> hosts simultaneously. I asked him (the bogus ccie)
> why he thought that would
> bring down the firewall? His reply? "The fact that I
> pinged more than 50
> hosts rapid fire caused the NT and Solaris servers
> on the LAN to start
> flooding the wire with excessive SMB traffic, and
> since the firewall saw
> that much SMB traffic it thought I was an intruder
> and shut down the
> interface I was attached to." Real reason: The old
> Firewall one software had
> a bug that misallocated memory for packet queues on
> internal interfaces. My
> excessive pinging caused the queue to overflow and
> the software itself
> crashed. An update fixed the problem. At least that
> was what the data center
> manager told me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Raul F. Fernandez
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:57 AM
> To: Tim O'Brien; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cisco
> Subject: Re: Possible phony CCIE
>
>
> Dear folks,
>
> I have to agree with Tim on this one. It may have
> been possible that the
> person at this site just did not pay enough
> attention to the question posed
> or that he may not known the answer. I do not know
> thew nature of the
> question. Perhaps Mark could be kind enough to let
> us know what the
> question was or were. Now depending on the nature
> and difficulty of the
> question it may justify his not being able to answer
> it. If he is lying he
> should be disciplined because he lied and because he
> has taken for granted
> all the blood sweat and tears that goes into getting
> a CCIE. I think too
> many folks get caught up in the CCIE and forget all
> the real hard work that
> goes into it. Basically, if he does not know the
> answer to a perplexing
> question he should at least be able to outline a
> troubleshooting plan to
> find it.
>
> Raul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cisco
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, October 23, 2000 8:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Possible phony CCIE
>
>
> >Just because a guy can config a router it does not
> make him a god. Lets
> face
> >it guys, there is nobody out there that knows
> everything about everything,
> >and if there is someone that thinks they do, I
> guarantee there is someone
> >else out there that knows more than they do.
> Obviously if this guy is lying
> >about his CCIE he should be exposed, and after
> reported it is up to Cisco
> to
> >deal with as they see fit.
> >
> >.02
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sam LI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Mark Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 6:41 AM
> >Subject: Re: Possible phony CCIE
> >
> >
> >Well, even some real one behave like this, i come
> across a few in the the
> >past
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Mark Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 3:55 PM
> >Subject: Possible phony CCIE
> >
> >
> >> Greetings-
> >>
> >>
> >> I recently worked on a project with a fellow who
> claimed to be a CCIE. He
> >> even gave me his card with the CCIE logo on it.
> At least I think it is
> the
> >> CCIE logo. It is a router symbol surrounded with
> laurels and has the
> words
> >> Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer circling it
> as well. After asking
> >this
> >> person a few questions, I became suspicious of
> his credentials due to his
> >> apparent lack of knowledge of the fundamentals.
> (I never asked for his
> >CCIE
> >> number because I attempted verification only
> after I left the account). I
> >> faxed a copy of the business card he gave me
> (homemade BTW) to someone in
> >> the CCIE program at Cisco. She told me the card
> is bogus and that she
> >would
> >> send the card to the Cisco lawyers. That was
> three months ago and this
> >> person is STILL working on site there. What do
> you people think I should
> >do
> >> now? Send e-mail to the persons that are
> contracting him there? He is
> >> charging a very high bill rate. The people he is
> working don't have
> enough
> >> knowledge to confirm his credentials. Should I
> let this go? Isn't part of
> >my
> >> cert agreement with Cisco to protect the logo? I
> feel that Cisco isn't
> >doing
> >> anything to protect us here.
> >>
> >> Mark Cohen
> >> CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I
> >>
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