This may be stupid but..

Mon Nov 10 19:27:46 UTC 2003

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:03:15AM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> When I interview, I start out by asking one or two key questions that
> help me quickly get to the truth. For instance at one company, when I
> has hiring NOC folks, I started by asking them to explain traceroute 
> to me.

"Which one? ICMP, UDP or TCP traceroute (to name the usual ones)?"

<silence on other side of the table>

:-)

Best regards,
Daniel

PS: this is the answer I'd expect from applicants... but this depends
on what cluelevel you want/need in your NOC. :-)