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Re: Common operational misconceptions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Sat Feb 18 03:56:31 2012

From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:55:44 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Paul Graydon wrote:
> Give me someone who can already think and analyse over someone who
> 'knows' it all, any day.  You can be qualified to the hilt but
> absolutely useless in the real world (I've watched CCNP and higher
> struggling to figure out why they can't ping a 10.0.0.0/24 address at a
> customers remote site, not even realising it's a private range, let
> alone trying to trace the path of the ping,)

Hard to believe, but you're obviously serious.  What are their job titles?  What were they hired to accomplish?
Also hard for me to understand that someone could study for CCNx and not get exposed to Private space and 1918...what am I 
missing?

--Michael 



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