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The Redibuster wrap (and a bollocking myth)

By ronaldxbartels on Wed, 10/15/08 - 12:20am.
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The Redibusters series started as an experiment to show that although IT was technical, it is overwhelmed with subjectivity. We have reached a dozen Redibusters and still going strong...

Please leave comments on the blog if you have an IT myth that needs to be confirmed or busted. (Nothing is sacred!)

  • Redibuster #1: ACLs on routers are insecure and can be easily bypassed.
    • Busted!
  • Confirmed!
  • Redibuster #4: Robert Madge could have sold Madge Networks to Cisco for $800m.
  • Plausible!
  • Redibuster #6: An Exchange server performs better if you reboot it each night.
    • Busted!
  • Redibuster #7: Cat 4500s are slow and must be replaced with Cat 6500s.
    • Busted!
  • Redibuster #8: Windows desktops are easier to support than Linux ones.
    • Busted!
  • Redibuster #9: Don't use VLANs. They are insecure and leak.
    • Busted!
  • Redibuster #10: Don't allow dynamic routing (or for that matter any network related function) on a firewall.
    • Busted!
  • Catch 22: Information Technology best practices exist.
    • Deadheat!
and to round it off, the forty-fourth myth: The ITSkeptic blog is bollocks. Is David Wheeldon correct in his assessment?

The Meerkats did award the ITSkeptic five pineapples!!!

In my opinion

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Ronald is an IT firefighter who enjoys the thrill of solving and analyzing problems. He was painted into a corner to become an IT firefighter because as a network engineer he quickly learned that everyone blamed the network, when there was a problem. He now works in the field of infrastructure architecture and service management.