Cogent sales-rep reacts to ARIN banning them from Whois for harvesting contacts.

Cogent sales-rep reacts to ARIN banning them from Whois for harvesting contacts.
Exclusive view from within the NOC of a incumbent telco.
When the vendor tells you they don’t support third-party optics.

When the vendor tells you they don’t support third-party optics.
Average Network-Engineer getting the two first Equinix IX ports for free.

Average Network-Engineer getting the two first Equinix IX ports for free.
set forwarding-options hyper-mode
Taking a peek inside ansible_automation.tar.gz the VAR just delivered

Taking a peek inside ansible_automation.tar.gz the VAR just delivered
Job encouraging the Internet community to enable RPKI validation
Honestnetworker getting the news that Juniper PR-search is up again.
AutoBW
Cisco consultants these days.
Honestnetworker realising how most SDWAN-implementations works.
Leaking your “optimized” routes to stub networks that then leak it to a Tier1 transit that doesn’t filter.
Calculating the future value of your Huawei HCIE in the US.

Calculating the future value of your Huawei HCIE in the US
RFO Call with your transit provider.

RFO Call with your transit provider.
Label stacking with an EX4550
Being the Network Engineer when the Kubernetes-people fucks up.
When you find a Bay Networks Switch in your network and actually knows how it works.

When you find a Bay Networks Switch in your network and actually knows how it works.
Honestnetworker doing his expenses from RIPE78 in Reykjavik

Honestnetworker doing his expenses from RIPE78
Honestnetworker reacting to “Senior Network Engineers” with two years in the business.

Honestnetworker reacting to “Senior Network Engineers” with two years in the business.
Zayo AS6461 Getting directions from the new owners

Zayo AS6461 Getting directions from the new owners
Trying to fit all your packet actions & QoS mappings onto a fixed pipeline Jericho ASIC

Trying to fit all your packet actions & QoS mappings onto a fixed pipeline Jericho ASIC
Juniper PR Search

Juniper PR Search
Networker finding critical Cisco 6500 in the network with full tables.
Juniper JSA10925 – Firewall Filters Ignored if they have certain names
Cred to dark_15
Cisco Sales-rep suggesting proprietary datacenter fabrics.

Cisco Sales-rep suggesting proprietary datacenter fabrics.
Large OTT provider baselining 100G port-fees with IXPs on GPF14

Large OTT provider baselining 100G port-costs with IXPs on GPF14
Tier1 representative handling peering-request at GPF in Montreal.

Tier1 representative handling peering-request at GPF in Montreal.
Asking the Sales Directors how many new customers is on the “Telco Cloud” this quarter.

Asking the Sales Directors how many new customers is on the “Telco Cloud” this quarter.