The ten commandments of networking

Introduction

Earlier this year, I posted a quasi-zen tweet (@vegaskid1973) in jest which seemed to tickle the fancy of a few of you based on replies and retweets and so I thought I’d use the rare free ten minutes I find myself with to flesh out the idea, which I light-heartedly present here as the ten commandments of networking:

1. You shall not trust a Visio diagram, lest you bring the customer site down
2. You shall not covet a colleague’s serial cable. Get your own and hands off mine!
3. You will backup and protect your configs like they were your first-born
4. You shall not bear false witness against a network incident. Unless explaining it to management
5. You shall have no other gods, but feel free to revere unicorns
6. You shall not murder a good TCP joke unless you are sure they will get it
7. You shall write the customer SLA/contract in such general terms so as never to breach it
8. Remember the 7th layer of the OSI model. On it you shall not do any work, leave that to the devs
9. You shall not commit config until you are confident your CV/resume is up to date
10. Whilst you may be vendor agnostic, you must believe in intelligent design

Finally

Please add your own suggestions in the comments below.

Till the next time.