Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Mike Hammett nanog at ics-il.net
Tue Mar 23 14:20:14 UTC 2021


"But why it should or shouldn't be clicked..." 

Sorta like most man pages. 




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Mike Hammett 
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From: "Mark Tinka" <mark at tinka.africa> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:11:44 AM 
Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? 




On 3/21/21 03:45, Eric Kuhnke wrote: 






But it's another thing to consider that we have a whole new generation of people who don't know and don't care what's going underneath the GUI and might not be able to do anything with the OS running on bare metal, if they have to. 



If we intend to abstract away configuring devices to a GUI level only and not care about what's going on under the hood, then it's time for everyone to just run out and renew their MCSE certifications and buy Meraki subscriptions. 


This has been a longstanding concern of mine with the next batch of network engineers. 

The GUI may have a check-box that says "ATT Bit". It is there to click, or not click. But why it should or shouldn't be clicked is the looming danger we are setting up the new blood for. 

Mark. 

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