What’s better than resolving a fault?

What’s better than resolving a fault? It’s a great feeling to finally resolve an issue that’s been kicking your ass.

I was troubleshooting a Cisco service earlier today which required some access lists be put in place to permit and deny some traffic. I managed to lock myself out of the router numerous times, but thankfully due to ‘reload in 5’, I was able to log back in 5 minutes later and continue to troubleshoot.

Finally resolving the issue had me sigh in relief and I gave myself a pat on the back when this was displayed on my screen

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God damnit.

What I felt like