Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 3/21/21 03:45, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

> But it's another thing to consider that we have a whole new generation 
> of people who /don't know and don't care/ what's going underneath the 
> GUI and might not be able to do anything with the OS running on bare 
> metal, if they have to.
>
> If we intend to abstract away configuring devices to a GUI level only 
> and not care about what's going on under the hood, then it's time for 
> everyone to just run out and renew their MCSE certifications and buy 
> Meraki subscriptions.

This has been a longstanding concern of mine with the next batch of 
network engineers.

The GUI may have a check-box that says "ATT Bit". It is there to click, 
or not click. But why it should or shouldn't be clicked is the looming 
danger we are setting up the new blood for.

Mark.