[177803] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Checkpoint IPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Baranski)
Thu Feb 5 16:24:15 2015
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From: "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list@gmail.com>
To: "'Roland Dobbins'" <rdobbins@arbor.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <684B0991-27AF-42EB-8972-EF340F1C6860@arbor.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:24:05 -0500
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On 6 Feb 2015, at 3:01, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Which highlights the importance of broadness of experience, of
> knowledge and understanding of the experiences of others, and
> understanding of the implications of scale.
It highlights the importance of knowing what you're doing in the real world,
on networks that exist and which you actually understand intimately,
end-to-end. And maybe also of not working for vendors, since these two
things are often mutually exclusive.
> By their very nature, it's impossible to do so.
Nope. But in any case, I've violated what I said this morning about not
turning this into a big back-and-forth. (Sorry.)
-Terry
