[93720] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Curious question on hop identity...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Jackson)
Fri Dec 15 02:13:59 2006
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:12:56 -0800
From: "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson@aninetworks.com>
To: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Niels Bakker
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:31 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Curious question on hop identity...
* JJackson@aninetworks.com (Joseph Jackson) [Fri 15 Dec 2006, 00:11
CET]:
>I'm pretty new to the networking world. While I don't run a huge and=20
>complex network in a service provider market. We're just an enterprise=20
>network. I have read a lot of useful info about networking from the=20
>nanog list. But I do have to say that when I speak to the designers and
>such at larger companies and I mention NANOG most of them brush it off=20
>and say "The NANOG people are the past and what they have to say
doesn't=20
>matter anymore".
>That's the general feel I get from others when it concerns NANOG.
Sounds like a strong and well-made argument. Instead of coming up with=20
responses to individual points your detractors are making, wipe them off
the table in one fell swoop by declaring its proponents out of touch.
I wish I was unscrupulous enough to get away with it too...
-- Niels.
I didn't say I listened to them.