OK, I admit it, I'm old... but I'm not so old that I can't learn new tricks.
Instead of being dragged kicking and screaming into the new era of telecom, I'm busily scratching and clawing my way up to the next level. That includes such things as domain name resolution, gateways, subnets, and port redirection and the obligatory new alphabet soup of DHCP, TCP/IP, VLAN, and DNS.
Anyway, I'm feeling self-satisfied right now because I've just set up one of my Mitel SX200 ICP systems for both remote Telnet maintenance and remote FTP backup/restore to online storage. I'm sure that sounds absurdly basic to young techs who cut their teeth on TCP/IP. But, then again, I confuse the heck out of most of them when I talk about serial ports pinouts, ASCII characters, and ACK/NAK flow control... and I gave up on explaining the telco color code because their eyes glaze over if I go past White/Brown.
So as you read this, lift your glass to my dogged determination. And if you pass me somewhere on the Information Superhighway and notice my left-turn signal blinking, be kind enough to Text me a gentle reminder.
Harry
