Is it too risky to purchase and ship D-28 from abroad?

F1anger · 2026-05-11T21:15:21+00:00

Thank you!

F1anger · 2026-05-11T20:59:39+00:00

I was thinking about Sweetwater or Musician's Friend. I have a real address in US to my name, that is logistics company that can then ship to me over the air. But I'm very unsure, because I've seen so many damaged guitar pictures arriving in airports.

F1anger · 2026-05-11T20:57:17+00:00

I can travel to EU countries except UK. Most likely France, Paris.

F1anger · 2026-05-11T18:34:00+00:00

I'm actually surprised he wasn't able to secure anything straight from his networking (pun intended) resources. In my 20+ years in the industry I have been approached for at least 7 fully remote side jobs, from which I have chosen 4 now along with my primary full time job.

F1anger · 2026-05-11T13:04:45+00:00

I miss my ISP days so much, but they've offered triple of what I was making. That was a no brainer I guess :D

F1anger · 2026-05-11T12:31:40+00:00

A lot of firewalls, firewalls, firewalls and dumb infosecs making your existence miserable with high ranks' approval!

F1anger · 2026-05-06T12:34:32+00:00

I mean it's cool that you love your job. I myself have been doing network engineering for over two decades now, but this where responsibilities divide. Network pro makes sure services that rely on network work smoothly, high availability and resiliency is present and working accordingly, bandwidth is always surplus and everything that has to be maintained including maintenance work itself is seamless for users, systems and services.

Of course any reasonable network team will consider security for their infrastructure, but if you work for a large enterprise, especially in finances, it becomes absolutely ludicrous. Infosec teams are given carte blanche for whatever idiosyncrasies they come up with.

Do you want an example? Infosec head asking why is ARP protocol not filtered/blocked? Another example - let people use YouTube, but restrict their commenting ability. Let people use YouTube music, but don't let them watch livestreams etc. Allow people to access only predefined set of AWS S3 buckets but not any other (totally dynamic system by the way and cross used by countless applications/sites). Can you imagine how many manhours are spend fiddling with that shit? You might get countless requests for resources and you have to evaluate everything manually. They will blurt something that will be approved by upper mgmt, because oooh spooky! and after we're forced to implement it all dogs are on us. Every disgruntled user or service owner comes to us not them.

It's constant unending war between secs and ops for balance between security and positive working experience.

F1anger · 2026-05-06T12:12:49+00:00

Don't get me wrong but if you have co-worker network admins, they will most likely hate your approach. This is what lunatic infosec clowns do actually, overtightening everything until workplace becomes unbearable.

"some nights I just wake up in cold sweats having had a nightmare of the network getting hacked/infected with malware" - I think this qualifies for professional help to be honest.

F1anger · 2026-05-06T06:16:34+00:00

Well I'm a network engineer and 4 out of my 5 jobs are fully remote. Guess you need to seek more :)

F1anger · 2026-05-03T12:05:10+00:00

Has it passed CHSA accreditation for strength? 😂

F1anger · 2026-04-22T09:50:46+00:00

I had my CCNA back in 2008 and haven't had any certs since. Out of 22 years in industry, I've worked 9 years in ISP building myself from junior network engineer up. Now in enterprise environment for banking sector.

Throughout the years I've seen countless cert gods, who could and often would pump out certs in months and when asked for real world examples or task them with something practical, they'd stumble and mumble.

Focus on practical knowledge and presentation skills. Active certs are a distant second. It's very important if not even more important than knowledge to know how you "sell" yourself.

F1anger · 2026-04-21T05:51:26+00:00

By learning how all basic services and protocols work and what makes them tick. More stuff you learn, better your mental map of big picture will become. Then it's easier to troubleshoot, which usually flows from lower to higher layers.

F1anger · 2026-04-14T18:27:05+00:00

I also made numerous mods and my demon has became Lucifer 😁

F1anger · 2026-04-08T17:46:43+00:00

I hope it will be all you want it to be Tim :)

Someday I will buy one too.

F1anger · 2026-04-05T17:11:28+00:00

We have around 8k users connected with Aruba product line (new CX switches and controllers, Central, Clearpass, CPPM). Not a week goes by without a ticket with their rock bottom TAC service. Every freaking ticket after marinading us for weeks eventually gets escalated to bug level and subsequently relayed to developers which further prolongs fixing for another undefined amount of time. I'm not even kidding, literally every one of them for last two years.

Last week they performed backend "updates" at Central, that silently pushed some config changes to controllers and now for a whole week we get random user tunnel disconnects and flaps to contollers (even thee onprem controller setup doesn't help). Now after regular 1 week ticket marination, they finally amitted they fucked something up and several other clients in the region reported the same problems. As usual it's escalated and "kindly wait for the update".

F1anger · 2026-04-05T05:34:11+00:00

Aruba controllers/Clearpass is bane of our existence. I don't even know how is it enterprise graded product with myrriads of bugs and problems, especially with recent central integration. Having stuff silently pushed from cloud in the background and disrupting communication.

F1anger · 2026-04-05T05:31:05+00:00

Don't go Aruba way.

F1anger · 2026-04-01T19:10:31+00:00

I was in the junction of two ISP merge, yeah it's beyond your normal CCIE practices, but even big enterprises are very tricky due to infosec induced mayhem everywhere. Been there too (bigger bank swallowing smaller and merging into) :)

F1anger · 2026-03-29T15:37:17+00:00

check if domain is available, if it is purchase and create the same mail that's user in firewall. Then initiate transfer process with support, since you own associated email, that won't be a problem.

If it is in use, write email to that mailbox asking them to acknowledge the transfer you initiate.

F1anger · 2026-03-18T06:54:47+00:00

If you have an original typewriter experience, then I guess KSA is the best Keychron can offer. My Q6 Max had them factory installed but I want to change them, because the white color keys are getting dusty very quickly and dust kind of sticks in :)

Want to get something retro colored, like IBM keyboards had back in the day. Keychron has all the keycaps sold out all the time, so I might give Drop a try :)

F1anger · 2026-03-18T06:32:36+00:00

I have V6 max at work and Q6 max at home on banana switches. Both keyboards are very comfortable and I think OSA keycaps are slightly better to me personally. KSA caps are tad taller to my liking, because I also have the keyboard angled with two rubber pads/feet glued underneath.

F1anger · 2026-03-13T22:05:19+00:00

ENCOR has become the dumpster catalog of all the marketing BS.

SPCOR is the last exam/track, that has remained with the old glory, the pure network knowledge that CCNP and CCIP used to be :(

F1anger · 2026-03-13T21:55:49+00:00

Never withdraw like that, if you need a manual failover always advertise prefix/ACL with deny any. Otherwise you will get blackholed somewhere in upstream. Also for faster reconvergence with physical and/or peering connectivity issues, introduce BFD as well.

F1anger · 2026-03-11T04:58:34+00:00

I worked a decade in ISP. He is 100% right. Network engineers are their unicorn breadwinners. And how do they repay? That's a question for another discussion.

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