From: Patrick Galligan (pgalligan@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 07:49:57 ART
On 9/1/07, Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com> wrote:
> Nothing feels as good as the real thing. And else nothing can prepare you
> for the real thing.
>
but a rack isn't the real thing either. The real thing (ie. a real
network as challenging as a CCIE exam) is quite a lot different to
both Dynagen, and a lab rack.
You can't ask a proctor to reset a router that is on the other end of
a 120km microwave link, or 60km VHF radio link, or 40km Aironet link
(on a dirt road highly susceptible to landslides), in the jungle of
Papua New Guinea (where in the last week I've had to deal with an
earthquake; constant rain affecting satellite link performance; a
power transformer blowing up and then having to schedule my work
around both normal business hours and the refuelling of the diesel
generator until the transformer gets fixed).
The R&S lab also doesn't have half a dozen Packershapers, firewalls, 2
different satellite providers, and multiple frame carriers, in
different countries (with very different levels of reliability) ;)
It was an interesting trip though, as it always is in PNG, and I got
everything working :)
-- You can't cheat death forever, but you can make the b!stard work for it.
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