Current frustration...

Started by deanwebb, September 08, 2015, 10:09:38 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 ... 4 5 6 7 8 ... 29
User actions

Nerm

#75
September 21, 2016, 07:50:26 AM
Quote from: SimonV on September 20, 2016, 02:31:22 PM
2016 and Frame Relay is still on the blueprint

:rage:

:hankhill:

icecream-guy

#76
September 27, 2016, 08:00:31 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on September 19, 2016, 10:51:56 AM
not sure if it's on my part or theirs

Them: I need 5 ips in zzz network

Me:  you don't have enough available

-- time passes

Them: can we get a new network assigned?

Me:  Yes

-- I do the research to find a nice little network, submit it to the keepers of the IP Address,
have them create the new network in the system and have 5 ip's assigned.

-- time passes

Them: we can't reach out servers in the new network, nor ping the default gateway

-- troubleshoot
(ok so I forgot to add the VLAN to the VPC trunk on the 5K's)  they can ping wining their network

-- more time passes

Them: we can't access any of our resources on any other network

Me: Did you submit a firewall request?

Them:   No

Me: well there are no firewall rules to allow off network traffic

- generously comb through the firewall ACLs and put in some rules that I think would work (knowing nothing about any of the hosts in the network

Me: Are you good now ?

Them: can we get a firewall audit to help us determine how the ACL rules need to be configured

Me: Ok

-- provide them with a firewall audit

-- more time passes

-- and they've already been hinting on a load balancer configuration for the new network

mmm..  now they want remote access to all the new servers for all the admins.

Haven't they ever heard of a jump box?
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#77
September 27, 2016, 08:25:18 AM
A jump box... isn't that like a bouncy castle at kids' parties?
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#78
September 28, 2016, 08:29:46 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on September 27, 2016, 08:25:18 AM
A jump box... isn't that like a bouncy castle at kids' parties?

no it's a security thing, I'm surprised you don't know about them. or you are just pulling my chain....
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#79
September 28, 2016, 05:54:56 PM
Quote from: ristau5741 on September 28, 2016, 08:29:46 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on September 27, 2016, 08:25:18 AM
A jump box... isn't that like a bouncy castle at kids' parties?

no it's a security thing, I'm surprised you don't know about them. or you are just pulling my chain....

:umad:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

SimonV

#80
October 20, 2016, 09:04:27 AM
Configured a JunOS bandwidth policer last night to prevent link saturation on a DSL line, forgot to add the permit-any term at the end.  One guy even went back home

:jackie-chan:

But at least the link didn't get saturated... 

:awesome:

deanwebb

#81
October 20, 2016, 09:39:24 AM
In training, have a design document due Friday, need to do a mandatory anti-bribery training that is overdue by 2 weeks and I have to submit my end-of-year appraisal that is overdue by 1 week.

Scheduling can be a nightmare...

:ivan:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

deanwebb

#82
October 20, 2016, 10:54:51 AM
Oh great, I have to upgrade RAM on 21 virtual appliances ASAP or we'll sustain a systemwide outage in the next few hours/days.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#83
October 20, 2016, 10:57:42 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on October 20, 2016, 09:39:24 AM
In training, have a design document due Friday, need to do a mandatory anti-bribery training that is overdue by 2 weeks and I have to submit my end-of-year appraisal that is overdue by 1 week.

Scheduling can be a nightmare...



I'll paypal you 10 bucks if you don't do the training...
:lol:
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

#84
October 20, 2016, 12:31:00 PM
I'm hardcore. Participating in class discussions while my manager submits emergency change requests, since I don't have authority to do so.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#85
November 03, 2016, 07:55:00 AM Last Edit: November 03, 2016, 07:56:41 AM by Nerm
While discussing plans for a PoC with an SD-WAN provider they tell you that currently the only way they support exchanging routes with your on-premise is via static or RIP.

:phone:

deanwebb

#86
November 03, 2016, 08:05:48 AM
Quote from: Nerm on November 03, 2016, 07:55:00 AM
While discussing plans for a PoC with an SD-WAN provider they tell you that currently the only way they support exchanging routes with your on-premise is via static or RIP.

:haha3:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

#87
November 03, 2016, 02:29:55 PM
Quote from: Nerm on November 03, 2016, 07:55:00 AM
While discussing plans for a PoC with an SD-WAN provider they tell you that currently the only way they support exchanging routes with your on-premise is via static or RIP.

:phone:
Riverbed?

Nerm

#88
November 10, 2016, 08:51:39 AM Last Edit: November 10, 2016, 08:55:00 AM by Nerm
No, it was Aryaka.

*btw, sorry for the late response. Been busy lately. :)

deanwebb

#89
November 10, 2016, 11:11:48 AM
Current frustration: taking over network IT functions from another vendor for 80% of Multinational Megacorporation's global footprint. Said other vendor can only apply an approximate view of the network, not a complete one. Massive research effort...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
Print
Go Up Pages 1 ... 4 5 6 7 8 ... 29
User actions