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Originally Posted by winders

How did this guy get to be a network engineer?

All it takes is telling someone that you are.

I used to work on the Cisco TAC. We had a guy call in one day - "I am at a clients site, and I need to get them on the Internet, what do I do?" So we started in with questions to try to figure out what sort of setup he needed, static or dynamic addressing, pool from the ISP or private with NAT, Frame relay or something else, etc... He couldn't answer any of them. Well, how do you have the router configured? The router was still new in the box, he hadn't consoled into the thing and didn't know how to console in. "Well, I'm usually a Windows NT guy, but they wanted me to do some network stuff..."

You'd be amazed at some of the stories and situations that I've seen.