[ale] Inexpensive broadband recommendations

[rhiannen]

Thanks for being a smart ass. <grin>

Networking is networking is networking. I've used tracert for years (supporting
win environments ~shudder~.) Routers don't really care what OS is sending or
receiving the packets.  For the clueless "we don't support Linux" NOC's, it
helps to know where the pretty tabs in Windows are and what they do.  Unless
they're good _&_ paranoid, they won't know you're not on a win box unless you
tell them.  (And if they've good enough to figure it out on their own, they
normally won't care about your platform.)

A quick way to lose the interest of any NOC is to claim it can't possibly be
your machine because (pick one) it worked fine yesterday, it can still see the
printer, the blinky light is still blinking, it's running Linux/*BSD/whatever. 
It's not the OS that proves the point, it's the ability to show the point of
failure.

---- 
rhia
Excuse me, please.  What universe is this?




Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
> > me (or my son) what operating system we were using or hang up after
> > it was readily apparent that we were not using Windows.  As soon as
> > you start quoting traceroutes to them, that's rather obvious that
> > they are no longer in Redmond.
> 
> Couldn't resist being a smart ass...
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> C:\>tracert 172.16.4.194
> 
> Tracing route to 172.16.4.194 over a maximum of 30 hops
> 
>   1   <10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  172.16.9.254
>   2    10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  172.16.4.194
> 
> Trace complete.
> 
> C:\>
> 
> Disclaimer: I do not advocate the use of Windows.
> 
> --
> Jonathan Rickman
> X Corps Security
> http://www.xcorps.net
> 
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