OUch!
Mike W.
"Brad Ellis" wrote in message
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> Yeah, they have CCIGE's, but it's only a Sylvan test now with 10
True/False
> questions...it used to be a 2-day lab exam.
>
> -Brad
>
> ""Ole Drews Jensen"" wrote in message
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> > Ha, I'd like to see that movie when it comes out :-)
> >
> > Do they have CCIGE's ? (Cisco Certified Inter-Galaxy Experts).
> >
> > Ole
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Larrieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:34 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: FW: The End of Empire [7:13829]
> >
> >
> > ran across this old NANOG post while cleaning up my inbox. thought
> everyone
> > might enjoy it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> > Mikey Wilsker
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:36 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: OT: The End of Empire
> >
> >
> > Darth Vader took two giant strides toward the immense visiscreen
> that
> > occupied the forward wall of the bridge of his flagship Imperial star
> > destroyer. "We've got them now," he rumbled. Whirling on the
> > technicians cowering at their consoles, Vader snapped, "Tractor beam!"
> > "Yes, Lord Vader," replied one, bending attentively to his task.
> > Then
> > he looked up hesitantly.
> > Vader gestured dramatically at the screen, indicating the fleeing
> > spacecraft. "I want a tractor beam on that ship," he declared. "Now!"
> > The technician busied himself with switches and dials.
> > "Where's that tractor beam?" roared Vader, his voice dark with
> > menace.
> > The other technicians turned frightened eyes on their peer. They knew
> what
> > happened when Darth Vader's instructions weren't executed instantly.
> > "The tractor beam seems to be down, sir," quavered the
technician.
> > "What do you mean down?" Vader inquired with a disturbing
silkiness
> > to
> > his voice.
> > "It's not accepting commands, sir," the technician explained.
> > Another
> > technician leaned over and examined the console. "That's odd. The beam
> > itself is showing green," he pointed out.
> > "Yes, I know," agreed the first.
> > "But I'm not getting any acknowledgment to my 'Engage' command."
He
> > pressed a button several times to demonstrate.
> > "Maybe the network's down again," suggested a third technician.
> > "Oh, that could be," admitted the first technician. "The network
> > might be down, Lord Vader," he informed the large black figure trembling
> > with rage.
> >
> > "What network?" Vader asked ominously.
> > The second technician jumped in. "Since we've moved to a
> distributed
> > architecture on the Imperial star destroyers, everything is on a
network.
> > It was felt that the direct connections were too unreliable."
> > The third technician added. "The tractor beam is on one of the
> > peripherals sub networks, with the printers and the scanners. It's not
on
> > the main weapons network."
> > "Why isn't the tractor beam on the weapons network?" asked Vader,
> now
> > more puzzled than angry.
> > The technicians exchanged sheepish looks. It was embarrassing to
> have
> > to point out something so obvious to a superior. The second technician
> > cleared his throat. "Well, sir, the weapons network is a higher
priority.
> > It makes more sense to put the less commonly used systems on a separate
> > sub network that has lower QOS."
> > "QOS?" Vader queried.
> > "Hang on a second," said the first technician. "If the network is
> > down,
> > how come we're getting a green light for the tractor beam?"
> > The third technician brightened. "Ah! Maybe the console is
> retrieving
> > old MIB data and displaying that."
> > "MIB?" rumbled Vader.
> > The first technician answered "We use SNMP to monitor the network
> > elements. When the server queries the element, it stores its current
> status.
> > If the network goes down, it can't query the element anymore, and all
> > you have is the latest status in the MIB." He turned to the other
> > technicians, musing.
> >
> > "We really should have an indicator of when the last successful query
was,
> > instead of just a green or red light."
> > "Good idea," said the third technician. "I'll call tech support."
> > "Say," said the second technician. "How about if we ping the
> tractor
> > beam?
> > Let me bring up a telnet window."
> > "Telnet?" asked Vader, now obviously confused. "Ping?"
> > The first technician glanced briefly at Vader, a little annoyed
at
> > the
> > interruptions. Why couldn't this guy keep up with the service bulletins?
> > "The system runs Unix, but the consoles run NT 5000," he replied with
> > exaggerated patience. "You need a telnet window to ping the element."
> > He turned his attention back to the screen. "That's strange. It comes
back
> > 'active'. Listen, when you get tech support tell them we can't engage
> > the tractor but we can ping it."
> > "Right," said the third technician. "I'm still on hold."
> > "Here's a thought," said the second technician. "What if we just
> call
> > the guys down at tractor control and have them engage the beam
manually?"
> > Vader seemed to brighten up at this, and swiveled his head from one to
> > another.
> > "Good idea," said the first technician. He lifted his communicator
> and
> > tapped the switch several times. "Nothing," he said.
> > The second technician shook his head. "Didn't we tell them we
> > couldn't
> > do voice and data with that little bandwidth?"
> > Suddenly Vader noticed the visiscreen and let out a bellow of
> anger.
> > "They're gone!" he boomed.
> > The third technician looked up smiling. "Hey, I got tech
support!"
> > --
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