On Wednesday, 01/17/2007 at 06:47 PST, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean people actually get paid for this?
You betcha! If you get yourself some Cisco router and switch education, along with VM, VSE, MVS, and Linux network configuration expertise, you have a marketable skill. This is what happens when you let mainframers (who I typically define as as sysprogs with no Classical IP Network training) start to manipulate said networks! Their natural inquisitiveness and fascination with shiny objects puts them squarely in harm's way. ;-) The only problem is that they learn quickly which buttons give a shock and which give a treat. Worse, they share that information with others in the herd, thereby reducing the "opportunities" for people like me. (See how upset I am? See?) But if I could have charged for all those VM TCP/IP, Guest LAN, and VSWITCH phone calls in the early days, I could have purchased that small out-of-the-way island I've had my eye on for some time. (sigh) > A basic picture with sample IP addresses on each end of a connection followed > by a corresponding configuration file explaining all of the required fields > would go a long way to solving these problems. So, I reiterate your (and DB's) > recommendation to post a network diagram when asking for help with a > configuration problem. Amen. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
