[AusNOG] Vlan Add - Was Re: Work experience in networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?

[Christopher Pole]

I think a lot of the dumb things like needing to include "add" before a
VLAN ID happen when you forget to consider usability when determining
configuration language. Personally I loathe the Cisco way of doing VLANs -
one thing Brocade does right imo.

Chris
cspole at gmail.com

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Alex Lynn <alexl at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Stupidest I've probably done to date was isolating the core switch whilst
> trying to filter out Cisco PVST adverts on a VC of Juniper EX4200's.  I
> was trying to migrate the whole system to MST and very new to Juniper.  Got
> a little overzealous with the filter and didn't fully understand the
> patchwork of cascading switches below.  I'm now very very fond of the
> commit confirmed command in Junos, I was slapped upside the head with that
> one AFTER I broke everything good and proper.
>
> Adding to the hilarity I'd also had my laptop reimaged a few days prior,
> and as such by the time I'd found my USB-Serial adaptor and legged it to
> the server room, it dawned on me when I saw "Driver Installation
> Unsuccessful" on my screen, I'd forgotten to install the driver pack for
> said USB Serial adaptor.  Was certainly touch and go for a few minutes
> there, haha!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Chris Gibbs" <chris.gibbs at serversaustralia.com.au>
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> Cc:
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> Sent:
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> Subject:
> Re: [AusNOG] Vlan Add - Was Re: Work experience in
> networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?
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>
> Ghosting HD's with the source and destination mixed up is also a bad
> gotcha!
>
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> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
> Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Back in the day,  I did a file copy from 1 windows partition to another
>> I did copy *.* /s  which didn’t take files with no extensions
>>
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Robert
>> Hudson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 24 December 2014 1:32 PM
>> *To:* PRK
>> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Vlan Add - Was Re: Work experience in
>> networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?
>>
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>> On 24 December 2014 at 13:27, PRK <ausnog at digitaljunkie.net> wrote:
>>
>> Is there anyone here who either:
>>
>> Or, if you're more of a systems person, haven't locked yourself out of a
>> server due to a firewall change, or directly seen someone else do so?
>>
>>
>>
>> I was installing Microsoft ISA 2000 remotely once (back in the day).  As
>> soon as it reboots, there's a "default deny" rule.  Whoops.
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