Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>

[Mike L]

whats this have to do with freebsd questions?
You seem to have a bad habit of spamming the mailing list with mundane BS.


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:

> $hit happens!  Even with PERFECTLY clean power, things fail.  Could take a
> week or 10 years.  That's why "enterprise" nets have redundant everything -
> and there are still outages ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gary Kline [mailto:kline at thought.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 07:56 PM
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
>
>
> Well, people,
>
> It's been a long, long century.  I've been down for 5 days.
> Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the
> Server itself].  Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that
> my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept stripping the most likely
> problem points.  My large 16-port LinkSys router was either *it* or
> it was some kind of bug unknown to geekdom.  After a friend bought
> me a new (and tiny) 8-port switch, yes!  I could ping everywhere.
>
> I'm still bringing back the dozens of things I removed from ethic.
> And testing new ideas.  But I have a general question: have any of
> you wizards who run your own domains or otherwise use a switch [or
> hub] *ever* had it just-quit?!  It is solid-state.  Yes, the box is
> within my feet/foot reach.  I have accidently kicked it i suppose,
> but still.
>
> After wandering in the wilderness for 5 days, <<mmph>>, dunno.
>
> gary
>
> PS: yes, this is a serious question.  1) I like things-Cisco, and
> LinkSys.  I just bought this switch about 2.5 years ago, so I really
> am looking for feedback.
>
> PPS:  Another question to ask about upgrading is next.
>
>
> --
>  Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service
> Unix
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