[149757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Wed Feb 15 17:10:19 2012
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:09:22 -0600
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120215215200.GG3353@dan.olp.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"Packet loss at hop X in traceroute/mtr does not necessarily point to a
problem at hop X."
Good one.
Also, security as a whole seems to be confusing for folks. They've seen
"Firewall" with Harrison Ford and therefore the FW is some secret master
voodoo widget that only people from Area 51 can operate. They don't
understand "header manipulation" vs "payload".
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 2/15/2012 3:52 PM, Dan White wrote:
> Packet loss at hop X in traceroute/mtr does not necessarily point to a
> problem at hop X.
