this is more blog than tech, but the girls won't understand 99% of the terms anyway, so who cares
for the last few years I've worked at my company (isp/telco/IPTV/wireless etc) I've done a lot of tier3 support for various services across all 3 networks (voice/data/tv)
apparently I did a good enough job that in the last couple of months I've been moved into the main layer3 support role
I've got 8ish years of networking experience, but working on the big big routers (cisco crs only a couple of these in N.america currently, 12000 series) and switches (7609s, 6509's etc) I'm absolutely in over my head
fuck bgp
that's really all I have to say
fuck bgp and the fuckers that picked IP instead of IS-IS