Moving, Working, Moving

Alright today at work, which by the way has been busy as hell.  Number one we just moved into a new building with a brand new infrastructure, that means from the ground up all new equipment.  A total gig backplane.  Now we have a DS3 connection which runs at 45 Mbps which is flipping fast.  we have around about 15M for data, 10 M Vpn, and the rest for voice and other resources.

We have a brand new phone system which is VoIP and TDM phones.  The biggest introduction however has been the two Pix firewalls.  Although I am not a Cisco guru or anything nor have I ever worked on a Cisco Pix firewall before but I did get a pretty good look at the config files that were used and it seems pretty easy as far as commands.

I couldn't believe the time it took to put all the equipment in the server room.  patching things down, racking servers, plugging switches in and making sure they were in the right VLANs, Looking at the DMZ, hooking up Fiber Cons on the switch, router, and firewall interfaces.  It was a interns dream to be apart of one of the companines biggest moves.

And although it went smoothely there were still some problems that arose as far as routes in the firewall and router that weren't quite right.  VPN tunnels not being set up.  Weird things like a VoIP phone being plugged into two wall jacks causing a loop whne patched in and causing the phone system to crash.  

All in all it was one hell of a weekend.  I finally go to spend a whole 24 hour shift moving and configuring it was cool to be needed by the other tech guys for questions.  It was a great feeling being the only guy that had worked with linux and being able to work (while being monitored very closley) on the IDS.

I had one hell of a weekend at work and this week we will be getting back to normal.

Update

I have been trying to update my blog on more of a regular basis but alas it is hard to do when you are always doing something.  So today on a nice Saturday afternoon and after I have done my duty of cleaning out my truck, weed eating the grass, and swam for a small portion of the day its time to sit back and enjoy the blogging.

As I sit here and enjoy a Rolling Rock, it occurs to me that most of my IT friends at this point are over in KC or thinking about KC.  Either that or they have jobs in pretty nice places.  I think about this because I am still an Intern with one more year of school left and everyone i have talked to about Network Administration or System Administration or Security positions have said it takes a while.  Well, I want to be a Network Administrator or Security Administrator whenever I get done with school.  Here is my brief roadmap to make this happen. 

1. Take Security+ test (since this is a Comptia test it will stay with me and it is basically just knowledge from a book not real world experience necessary.
2. Take CCNA while in college and use the lab as my study arena.
3. Begin taking microsoft certifications because most places like to have MCSA and MCSE in the house
4. After taking Sec+, work on other certifications like Lin+, Net+ just to have them.

So there is what I need to achieve in order to get to what i want to be and oh yeah i have to be able to give detailed answers on every technology they ask about without blinking an eye.  I hope to be a Badass at networks and security.  Until then I am a Badass in training.