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[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Would you believe that making alterations to two access-lists on two seperate Ciscos (a 2610 and a 1720) could take two hours? At 5pm I started work on making changes for a customer. I pasted in 20 lines of a config and the fucking thing locked up on me and kicked me off my telnet session. The guy rebooted it twice and it finally came back (though things take forever to power up). I did the same thing to the 1720 and that, too, locked up. The poor guy had to drive 10 miles to reboot it. I'm so happy he was understanding about the whole thing, though I felt awful that my fuck-up caused him inconvenience.

It took me two-and-a-half hours to remove an access-list and apply a new one on each router. It was embarassing, to say the least. I left just before 7:30pm. I wanted to cry; I'd already been awake since 3am and just wanted to go home and die sleep.

At the same time, a sysadmin was barking in my metaphorical ear asking for firewall changes internally that really didn't need doing at that second. Gahhhhh.

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[noweb4u.livejournal.com]

You didn't remove the access list from the interface before applying the new one, did you?

That one gets people every time. If you're not going to remove the access list from the interface, you gotta do it from the console or aux/modem or whatever.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

No, I did everything right. ;) I think the CPU just spazzed out or something.