Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin 142
snydeq writes "Born or made, network admins share certain defining characteristics. Deep End's Paul Venezia offers nine: 'I hope that this insight into the extremely logical, yet consistently dangerous world of the network admin has shed some light on how we work and how we think. I don't expect it to curtail the repeated claims of the network being down, but maybe it's a start. In fact, if you're reading this and you are not a network admin, perhaps you should find the closest one and buy him or her a cup of coffee. They could probably use it.'"
Re:Will read later (Score:4, Informative)
A proxy delivers whatever code the admin wants it to deliver. Squid returns 403 on ACL blocks, but it's trivial to alter.
Re:The BOFH knows the real traits of seasoned admi (Score:4, Informative)
No it doesn't: packet sniffers.