Telephone interview tomorrow - Networking role

DJMK4

DJMK4

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Hi all,

I have a telephone interview tomorrow with a company, and I am brushing up on some revision again, they have pointed out area's that they are looking out on, one of the bullet points states

"How do you command a router when its busy"

I'm not quite sure the approach on this, or if there is a feature on certain routers (I think they are mainly looking down the Cisco route), I have knowledge in them but just never run in to this situation before of being able to command a busy router.

If anyone could elaborate on how I could approach this just incase they ask, tried google but only thing I can find is stuff about turning off certain debug logs etc which I am not 100% sure is relevant...
 
What a silly question. They may be asking a general question though to gauge your response. Busy through traffic throughput? Serial. Does it have out of band management? Protected control plane? Bleh. Ask for clarification and router model. An ISR will operate differently to an ASR for example, assuming we're even talking Cisco here

- GP
 
It's a bit of a strange question alright, if they do ask you in the interview and you ask for clarification, please post back what they come up with.
 
I'm guessing they're after some sort of recognition that the serial console is still a very useful feature, but are awful at wording it.
 
As you're asked, enter the questions here on the forum.

Then repeat it back to the interviewer verbatim.

Disguise your typing noises and buy yourself some 'thinking' time from them.
 
I would have said something of the following

'that would depend on what the router was busy doing, can they elaborate on what they perceive as busy and can you let me know the make and model of the device?'

Then I would hope they would tell me then hopefully could answer the question. I think it's one of them trick questions to see how you would answer it.
 
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