liquidlight

Well, if you have a good network story at least

http://www.smartestofall.org

For those of us that are admins you'll appreciate this, I'm still laughing!

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maleficent

rather than just plugging a site, how about sharing some networking horror stories... or user horror stories...

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liquidlight

Good point, I'll copy what I submitted to the page:

A system admin (who shall remain nameless) had the following conversation with
tech support:

Support: "So how are the networks communicating?"
Admin: "It's all done by VLAN."
Support: "On the core switch?"
Admin: "Yes."
Support: "Ok, so what's the IP address of the core switch?"
Admin: "It doesn't have one."
Support: "Then what's handling the routing?"
Admin: "It's all done by VLAN."
Support: "On the core switch?"
Admin: "Yes."
Support: "So what is the IP address?"
Admin: "It doesn't have one."
Support: "Then how is it routing?!"
Admin: "The core switch is doing it by VLAN."
Support: "Ok, can you do a show run on the core switch and send me the
output?"
Admin: "Sure."

15 minutes and one running-config file later and I found the interface info for
the port that all the VLANs fed to, sure enough there is the helper IP that we
needed to be able to route to all those VLANs. Aren't user's great?

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Dilbert1234567

a conversation between me and my ISP

Me: “hey I ordered your faster package 3 months ago, and I’m not getting faster speeds”
Charter: “what problems are you experiencing?”
Me: “I’m not getting the speeds that I am paying for”
Charter: “due to network limitations of some sites you will not always get the full speeds we offer”
Me: “I’ve done some benchmarking on several different sites and I see no difference in speeds prior to the upgrade, can you check the settings”
Charter: sounds of typing and conversation in the background.
Charter: “ok sir I’ve checked the settings and you have been upgraded”
Me: “were you able to check my cable modem in that time, or did you just check your database?”
Charter: “the database, they are the same”
Me: “please check my modem it self, maybe some one skipped over mine.”
Charter: “ok hold on.”
Charter: more sounds of typing, for longer this time.
Charter: “ok I checked and you have been upgraded.”
Me: “The modem with the MAC of **:**:**:**:**:** ?”
Charter: “yes”
Me: “Then why is my modems config file listed as the old config file?”
Charter: “we use the same name on the config file…”
Me: “Then why is my modem’s max down stream bit rate way lower than it should be”
Charter: “well…”
Me: “and why is my modem’s max up stream bit rate way lower than it should be”
Charter: “you should not have access to that page, it’s locked and you should not be messing with your modem to unlock it.
Me: “your people forgot to lock it, just like you forgot to change my bit rate, you know what I’m done with you, what’s your name and transfer me to your supervisor”
…
I hope he got fired.

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TexanAvenger

Just thought I'd share the very fine print, in text, since I found it funnier that way than in binary.