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submitted 1 year ago by manifex to c/networking
 

Enterprise network and security is where I spend most of my time and thought there may be others out there who want to commiserate with me.

Hello world!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Data center architecture and engineering is my specialty. Big switches, fast ports, no L2 :)

[–] zeusbottom 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Senior engineer at a big US VoIP provider checking in. Been fairly active on r/networking.

[–] manifex 2 points 1 year ago

Glad you're here!

[–] boydster 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm more on the hobbyist side of things, but I interface with people who live in the enterprise networking and security world. And my Pi server might not exactly be a Cat9k, but I still get headaches when I need to learn how to fix whatever it is I broke most recently, which is frequently. I'll gladly commiserate!

[–] manifex 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Most recently, I've been battling with troubleshooting network fabrics that use software defined network paths... think SDWAN, CASB, etc. The networking world is a changing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello. Work for an NSP so mostly do service provider network, although my current joy is automation (Salt)

[–] manifex 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Love it. It can be a bit buggy at times, and there's definitely a bit of a learning curve, but it's powerful and have a great community.

[–] Vendetta9076 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do platform ops and frankly whether its in my everyday life or work I despise networking. Yet its also probably the cause of the most interesting issues we run into so I guess I don't hate it that much.Just frustrates the hell out of me.

[–] manifex 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel ya. I do it day and night - global ops for a Fortune company - me and my homie in Philly and two in Manila. We have meetings at 8am/pm - lol.

[–] Vendetta9076 2 points 1 year ago

Man I getcha there. We have departments all over the world and within my team we have people in NL, UK US and AU timezones. Trying to get everyone into a meeting is a challenge

[–] ciabatta_cat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey there. Network engineer here. Just joined Lemmy and when I saw this server had a networking sub figured it would be a good starting place. I spend a lot of time administrating firewalls, specifically Palo Altos. Know a little about a lot of things and currently responsible for everything networking at my current gig.

[–] manifex 2 points 1 year ago

Woot! Welcome. Love this server. @TheDude is the man.