I'm sure they are, should I manage to snag a CCNP, CCNA or CCIE's ear somewere, I'm
gonna glue it down! I'm sick of trying to fathom Radia Perlman, Iljitsch van Beijnum and a
smattering of RFCs and STDs (no, not venereal type)!
Well ... it's not just a single thing ... I bump into things every now and again. The biggest
problem I think. is that I don't have a Network/Routing lab of my own, and can therefore
not test my understanding of the myriad of abstract concepts in practice, so I have this
this head full of Classless Interdomain Routing, Maximum Flow Algorithms, Route Flap
Damping, Multi-homing, but I have never even touched something with a Cisco badge on it.
I just want to speak to one of those strange individuals who can make a Cisco 6xxx purr
just by looking at it. The problem is, here in the Third world I can't exactly run to Cisco and
say: "G'day, mind loaning me a $70 000 router for an M.Sc. dissertation that refuses to
finish itself?"
I know this is not anyone in Networking & Security's problem ... I just hoped against all
hope, that my IOS 12.3 wielding [H]ero, may perhaps lurk in the shadows around here.