--- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:10:25 -0700, Jeroen van Aart said:
You sort of nailed it though. I think ready knowledge about the internals of utilities such as traceroute or ping is nice to have, however if you don't know
Describe the top 3 gotchas of using traceroute to diagnose network problems. :) That's something you're not likely to look up if you're in the middle of a connectivity event.... ------------------------------------------------ It's these types of questions that're hard for some in an interview even though they know their stuff. One might get nervous wondering if (s)he gave the interviewer the three that they're looking for and stumble on the next question even though the next question seems easy to the interviewer. I'd ask the question a little differently: I have a network problem between 2 sites and there is a firewall between them that is blocking ICMP and nothing else. How would you complete a traceroute to troubleshoot? (Use BSD or tcptraceroute, for example) Then, it turns the questioning into operational. scott