It seems rather silly to me that a CCIE would suggest that a Sun box would
"flood the wire with excessive SMB traffic". I'm not saying this rules
this man out of being CCIE, just that the diagnoses is a poor one coming
from anyone, even if they don't know about FW1.
-Brad
At 12:54 PM 10/23/00 -0700, Nnanna Obuba wrote:
>
>
>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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