Yeah, they have CCIGE's, but it's only a Sylvan test now with 10 True/False
questions...it used to be a 2-day lab exam.
-Brad
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> Ha, I'd like to see that movie when it comes out :-)
>
> Do they have CCIGE's ? (Cisco Certified Inter-Galaxy Experts).
>
> Ole
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Larrieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FW: The End of Empire [7:13829]
>
>
> ran across this old NANOG post while cleaning up my inbox. thought
everyone
> might enjoy it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Mikey Wilsker
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: OT: The End of Empire
>
>
> Darth Vader took two giant strides toward the immense visiscreen
that
> occupied the forward wall of the bridge of his flagship Imperial star
> destroyer. "We've got them now," he rumbled. Whirling on the
> technicians cowering at their consoles, Vader snapped, "Tractor beam!"
> "Yes, Lord Vader," replied one, bending attentively to his task.
> Then
> he looked up hesitantly.
> Vader gestured dramatically at the screen, indicating the fleeing
> spacecraft. "I want a tractor beam on that ship," he declared. "Now!"
> The technician busied himself with switches and dials.
> "Where's that tractor beam?" roared Vader, his voice dark with
> menace.
> The other technicians turned frightened eyes on their peer. They knew
what
> happened when Darth Vader's instructions weren't executed instantly.
> "The tractor beam seems to be down, sir," quavered the technician.
> "What do you mean down?" Vader inquired with a disturbing silkiness
> to
> his voice.
> "It's not accepting commands, sir," the technician explained.
> Another
> technician leaned over and examined the console. "That's odd. The beam
> itself is showing green," he pointed out.
> "Yes, I know," agreed the first.
> "But I'm not getting any acknowledgment to my 'Engage' command." He
> pressed a button several times to demonstrate.
> "Maybe the network's down again," suggested a third technician.
> "Oh, that could be," admitted the first technician. "The network
> might be down, Lord Vader," he informed the large black figure trembling
> with rage.
>
> "What network?" Vader asked ominously.
> The second technician jumped in. "Since we've moved to a
distributed
> architecture on the Imperial star destroyers, everything is on a network.
> It was felt that the direct connections were too unreliable."
> The third technician added. "The tractor beam is on one of the
> peripherals sub networks, with the printers and the scanners. It's not on
> the main weapons network."
> "Why isn't the tractor beam on the weapons network?" asked Vader,
now
> more puzzled than angry.
> The technicians exchanged sheepish looks. It was embarrassing to
have
> to point out something so obvious to a superior. The second technician
> cleared his throat. "Well, sir, the weapons network is a higher priority.
> It makes more sense to put the less commonly used systems on a separate
> sub network that has lower QOS."
> "QOS?" Vader queried.
> "Hang on a second," said the first technician. "If the network is
> down,
> how come we're getting a green light for the tractor beam?"
> The third technician brightened. "Ah! Maybe the console is
retrieving
> old MIB data and displaying that."
> "MIB?" rumbled Vader.
> The first technician answered "We use SNMP to monitor the network
> elements. When the server queries the element, it stores its current
status.
> If the network goes down, it can't query the element anymore, and all
> you have is the latest status in the MIB." He turned to the other
> technicians, musing.
>
> "We really should have an indicator of when the last successful query was,
> instead of just a green or red light."
> "Good idea," said the third technician. "I'll call tech support."
> "Say," said the second technician. "How about if we ping the
tractor
> beam?
> Let me bring up a telnet window."
> "Telnet?" asked Vader, now obviously confused. "Ping?"
> The first technician glanced briefly at Vader, a little annoyed at
> the
> interruptions. Why couldn't this guy keep up with the service bulletins?
> "The system runs Unix, but the consoles run NT 5000," he replied with
> exaggerated patience. "You need a telnet window to ping the element."
> He turned his attention back to the screen. "That's strange. It comes back
> 'active'. Listen, when you get tech support tell them we can't engage
> the tractor but we can ping it."
> "Right," said the third technician. "I'm still on hold."
> "Here's a thought," said the second technician. "What if we just
call
> the guys down at tractor control and have them engage the beam manually?"
> Vader seemed to brighten up at this, and swiveled his head from one to
> another.
> "Good idea," said the first technician. He lifted his communicator
and
> tapped the switch several times. "Nothing," he said.
> The second technician shook his head. "Didn't we tell them we
> couldn't
> do voice and data with that little bandwidth?"
> Suddenly Vader noticed the visiscreen and let out a bellow of
anger.
> "They're gone!" he boomed.
> The third technician looked up smiling. "Hey, I got tech support!"
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