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So, I get an errant text from a classmate today

Hey can you help me with a bit of a cisco emergency?

So I give him a call. Turns out his father works as a networking contractor for a few local firms. Details are sketchy, but I work out the gist:

Their link between locations has crapped its face and doesn't know whats wrong. Router keeps loosing its config. Nobody knows Cisco, except the CCNA dude, who lost it this morning when his father died. Me and my classmate are still trying to work out details. Documentation is non-existent. Grumpy admins can't load their email or do anything.

fuck.

I show up at 11:45 with my classmate and we look at what we have: a sketchy config and some basic idea of what we're doing. Apply the config. Nothing. But somehow, we're pinging across the line. Odd. Then I remember that Cisco has the default state of interfaces to down.

int f0
  no shut
int s0
  no shut

Like a boss, I say "That should do it."

From the depths of accounting comes this uproar of "IT WORKS!"

stood up with two seasoned networking professionals pulling their jaws from the linoleum.

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