Shipping backer copies of Run Your Own Mail Server has owned me for days. I haven’t been able to write a word for two weeks now. So here’s a chunk from Network Flow Analysis.
Network administrators of all backgrounds share one underlying, overwhelming desire.
It doesn’t matter if you manage a network with 400 separate manufacturing plants connected by a global MPLS mesh or if you’re responsible for three computers and an elderly printer. Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for just one thing: We want our users to shut up.Blaming the network is easy. The network touches everything. Businesses assume that the network will work perfectly and make decisions accordingly. A user can’t open that 900MB Excel spreadsheet on the file server on another continent from his 20th-century PC? Network problem. A website in Farawayistan is slow? Network problem. A user can’t get a faster response over a 33.6Kbps modem? Network problem.
Yes, a real publisher paid me for this tripe.