Curious question on hop identity...

Fri Dec 15 07:12:56 UTC 2006

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Niels Bakker
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:31 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Curious question on hop identity...

* JJackson at aninetworks.com (Joseph Jackson) [Fri 15 Dec 2006, 00:11
CET]:
>I'm pretty new to the networking world.  While I don't run a huge and 
>complex network in a service provider market. We're just an enterprise 
>network.  I have read a lot of useful info about networking from the 
>nanog list. But I do have to say that when I speak to the designers and

>such at larger companies and I mention NANOG most of them brush it off 
>and say "The NANOG people are the past and what they have to say
doesn't 
>matter anymore".
>That's the general feel I get from others when it concerns NANOG.

Sounds like a strong and well-made argument.  Instead of coming up with 
responses to individual points your detractors are making, wipe them off

the table in one fell swoop by declaring its proponents out of touch.

I wish I was unscrupulous enough to get away with it too...

	-- Niels.

I didn't say I listened to them.