As the author of "Networking for Systems Administrators" I can attest this XKCD is 100% true. #sysadminhttps://t.co/ehSIh7Jcd8

— Michael W Lucas / Michael Warren Lucas (@mwlauthor) January 24, 2020

Yes, true. Networking problems is where the rote troubleshooters (can Google a little) and the real troubleshooters get sorted out. Issues associated with networking are 10x (at least) as hard as any problems with servers, OS, storage and the like. You absolutely cannot get by with Google. What answers are there are often wrong. You can’t even rely on vendor documentation. No, you have to be looking at the packets and understand what they are doing, why they are doing it, how routing and many other technologies work, and how they all interact together.

Networking is where you get into the deep magic.