"Two many fingers on keyboard" syndrome.

[darren.g]

I've just had the most frustrating couple of weeks in my entire career, and it came down to a case of "too many fingers on keyboard' syndrome.

I was trying to get a site-to-site VPN configured between my ASA and one of our teleworkers on a 887 at the other end.

I got the damn thing working on the internet, NATing properly, all sweet - but I could *not* get the tunnel running.

I deleted it, re-created it, deleted it, re-created it, tweaked this, tweaked that - still couldn't sort it out.

After looking voer the config for what must have been the 400th time, I noticed one thing.

When I defined the protected network at the remote end, I juxtaposed two octets of the Ip range.

So I had the router offering 10.0.250.8/29 - and the firewall expecting 10.250.0.8/29

As *soon* as I corrected the typo - viola, tunnel coems up. yeah, I had a couple of missing nat exempts as well, but it damn well worked!

So, fellow learned ones - what's been YOUR biggest "Network Adminsitrator is an idiot" moment?

Cheers

[EStarry]

I'm going to have to say it was a ticket I made for a rep who's screen was very dark-Lenovo thinkpad tablet. I walked trough about 20 different troubleshooting steps and even started a remote session. As I looked down at the keyboard, it hit me that Fn+home increases screen brightness...apparently I have become so accustomed to complicated situations, I have lost all memory for basic computer 101. The rest of my desk seemed to think it was just hilarious.

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