Friday night fun!

[Big Evil]

Friday are great right?

You leave work and the weekend is your own, if like me you enjoy time on your Cisco study, a walk in the park and a few cold beers (followed by Crown Royal LOL).
Friday night at around 21:19, my phone rings and my operation manger asks me to call a customer of ours as they have lost connection to over 50 sites. No biggie me thinks.....

I check over the network and within seconds i can see a device in our DC has dropped, not good. As the DC is over 150 miles from me, i call remote hands and request a reboot. Within a hour they call and reboot has been done. Funny, pings are dropping still?
I call them back and ask what lights are on? So they tell me, i say you have rebooted the wrong device. I tell them what device to reboot.
And they reboot again reboot the wrong box!!!!

How hard is it to read a damm label??
So now i have double the sites down at once.

They finally they learn to read and reboot the right box, then i have the great job of getting over 100 VPN's up one at a time. I hate Junipers, if they were Cisco ASA (our normal choice) i could just clear ipsec sa/clear cry isa and be done in seconds. But no, i have log onto the Junipers and change the peer gateway, wait for the DPD to time and change it back.

I get to bed at 03:12.

I love my job!!!

[elphrank0]

Good work big E cuz had they called me Friday, lol they would have been down till Saturday morn sometime... I wasn't very comprehensive u might say ;)

[lammle]

had they called Frank all they would have heard was giggles on the other side of the phone LOL

That sounds like great experience your better BE. I know some ISP's in the Dallas area (if you want to live in the country of Texas) that can use your help...McAfee also is looking for someone that has cisco and juniper experience. Pat and I do consulting work for them because they can't find anyone with real life ISP experience.

And besides, 3am is only 8pm here and Frank and I were just starting to drink.... :)

[elphrank0]

Todd,

Next time your at Mcafee please pull their backbone links! Ugg I hate that company...

[lammle]

no thanks, Frank.
I am sure it connects to the finance department...

[elphrank0]

OK I will give u that! If they only could write better software.. They are not as bad as Norton "Symantec" though.

[lammle]

No way! Norton IS a virus!

[elphrank0]

Hecky yea it is.. I have seen so many computers crash because it has touched files in the system folder.. Horrible design. It worked fine until Symantech bought them out..

Sorry for the Thread Hi-Jack BE!

[Big Evil]

I was starting to see things. My eyes were hurting so bad, i had to have another beer! LOL..

To be honest i love being right in the middle of the action.

[lammle]

Yea, BE, we're sorry you worked so late on Friday night and that we stole your pedestal...haha! :)

See what happens when you bitch about something, we all chime in about our day (or night) too! Or bad software... :)

[lammle]

I was starting to see things. My eyes were hurting so bad, i had to have another beer! LOL..

To be honest i love being right in the middle of the action.


That's where you want to be - where the experience is!

[Big Evil]

Yea, BE, we're sorry you worked so late on Friday night and that we stole your pedestal...haha! :)

See what happens when you bitch about something, we all chime in about our day (or night) too! Or bad software... :)
Na problem captain.

We are all in this together. Should i have known you guys were up i would have sent you a PM and we could have had ourself a international CR party!! (again LOL)

[HermeszData]

That's where you want to be - where the experience is!

That is seems I am always fighting a "fire" of some sort.

For the past 10+ years I have been working the Independant Contractor scene, mostly in the Retail Point-of-Sale business. Major retailers here Stateside.

Anyway, several years ago, after a rash of emergancy, site Hard-Down, calls, I had a conversation with one fo the project managers I routinely deal with. I told him:

"You know, whenI was a kid of 5,6, or 7, I was just like any other boy my age! I wanted to be a Fireman when i grew up! Little did I know that at age 48 (My age at the time. I an almost 55 now) That my dream ahd come true. Only, not in the fashion I could have ever imagined!"

Gotta luv the Fast Paced Rat Race! FPRR.

Good job BE

[lammle]

"You know, whenI was a kid of 5,6, or 7, I was just like any other boy my age! I wanted to be a Fireman when i grew up! Little did I know that at age 48 (My age at the time. I an almost 55 now) That my dream ahd come true. Only, not in the fashion I could have ever imagined!"

Dude, you're old!! Dear lord... :)

[HermeszData]

"You know, whenI was a kid of 5,6, or 7, I was just like any other boy my age! I wanted to be a Fireman when i grew up! Little did I know that at age 48 (My age at the time. I an almost 55 now) That my dream ahd come true. Only, not in the fashion I could have ever imagined!"

Dude, you're old!! Dear lord... :)
Maybe, But not too old to still learn ... or take advantage of other important things in life!

[Big Evil]

When i was younger when i grew up i wanted to be a teacher or a caterpillar. True.

[gabrielshorn]

Pardon my reviving an old thread, but what do you guys think about the current Juniper products? I need to replace the firewalls in two small offices, but ASA 5510s are over budget. I was looking at Juniper SRX 210s for two offices with about 50 employees at one and 15 at the other. They need site-to-site VPN, firewall, and maybe IPS/IDS support, and each office may grow by 50%.

[Big Evil]

Don't get me wrong i like Juniper, but some doing some simple stuff can be really tough, as you have to do it via the GUI and not the CLI. I wish i had learnt more CLI juniper stuff, maybe sometime in the future i will.

Look at this way you get to set up and run Juniper and put that in your exp pile.

[gabrielshorn]

Thanks BE. No doubt the experience would be good. Just want to be careful with what I recommend to install. I've obviously heard Junipers are great, but other than a few hours I've spent in JunOS learning my way around, I have no first hand experience. I definitely want the experience!

[Big Evil]

Its good to have indeed.