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The Pledge of the Network Admin

1st April 2011 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog

I can get behind this. For every person who has crammed their study program with brain dumps & “exam prep” material, read this and feel your conscience squirm.

The Pledge of the Network Admin

This is my network. 

It is mine
or technically my employer's,
it is my responsibility
and I care for it with all my heart

there are many other networks a lot like mine,

but none are just like it.

I solemnly swear 

that I will not mindlessly paste from HOWTOs.

Firewalling with OpenBSD’s PF packet filter: Hat Tip to Ian Bowers for mentioning this in the comments.

About Greg Ferro

Human Infrastructure for Data Networks. 25 year survivor of Corporate IT in many verticals, tens of employers working on a wide range of networking solutions and products.

Host of the Packet Pushers Podcast on data networking at http://packetpushers.net- now the largest networking podcast on the Internet.

My personal blog at http://gregferro.com

Comments

  1. James says

    3rd April 2011 at 06:24 +0000

    What if documentation written as a HOWTO by the network admin and specifically intended so that if said network admin was unavailable, the HOWTO could be mindlessly followed by a non network admin and produce working results?

    • J.D. Wegner says

      12th May 2011 at 16:01 +0000

      @James: Then it would be mindFULLY pasting HOWTOs.

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