From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 05:21:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951EB1065688 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:21:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3EC8FC0C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 05:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4B2CCE8050A; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jon Radel Message-ID: <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:21:17 -0000 On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:18:52 -0400 > From: Jon Radel > Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer > > > On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>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. > > > >I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer > >worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no > >evident reason. > > > > Ditto. Most recently a Cisco switch had a rather useful port go > into a really weird state that didn't really look broken but bits > just...weren't....flowing. Took a while, and a lot of poking at the > server in question, before we looked at each other and said, "Wait, > we've been assuming the switch works, what if it isn't." Hm. WEll, I suppose stranger things have happened. If Chad has had his switch drop connections one-by-one---well, news to me! I figured, hey, solid- state will work forever and 20 years, whichever comes first. ... > > BTW, Gary, Linksys=Cisco is pretty much just a marketing thing and > not a technology thing. Sure. But I've had luck++ with LinkSys for years, even before Cisco bought them out. --My new switch is an LG. See what happens. ... . > > --Jon Radel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org