One of the questions I will ask is what sort of setup they have at home and how they manage it. A few years ago this was much more interesting than it is today. With the possibility of outsourcing so much functionality the home network is no longer as critical as it used to be. Now it's a matter of what they have outsourced, to where, and why have they done so. This can be rather revealing in how much the person is interested in tech, tools, trends, etc.
The fact is that we don't need to be running 15 machines at home with all that entails in regards to power, heat, backups, cooling, etc. The payment to com-ed for power has dropped enough to pay for some of these services and we have more free time since we're not patching the core of these servers. One or two more powerful machines with some VM images is much more practical. We don't need to have a complex network infrasturcture to deal with this simple setup either. If someone is still running a pile of servers at home, why? Are they really looking forward or just running a museum piece? How current is the tech they are dealing with at home? Does having a "big" home network really have anything to do with the work net? I don't think I've heard of anyone having a home net that is even few percent of what many of us have at work. Maybe if you are dealing with a small business, but then how complex of a network do you really have? Your home net probably can't impact the routing tables of your service provider. --Gene _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
