From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 18:04:38 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 50A0C1065673 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:04:38 +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 2B4E18FC0C for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5A7C2E808D1; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:37 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matt Emmerton Message-ID: <20110923180437.GB31222@thought.org> References: <201109222014.p8MKEobt083145@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4B62F4A4-4B49-4CB5-91F1-A3C3E624251F@d3photography.com> <20110923013119.GA8424@thought.org> <000b01cc799b$3abfec90$b03fc5b0$@on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01cc799b$3abfec90$b03fc5b0$@on.ca> Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 25 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ] 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: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:04:38 -0000 On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:48:09 -0400 > From: Matt Emmerton > Subject: RE: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ] > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 > > >> >> *Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying "INT" in red > >> >> LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the > >> >> default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green. > >> >> and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other > >> >> network things will work too. > > The Mark I eyeball is an amazing tool. well, cant be sure, but my router is q1000. [?] > > I recently had a HDSL link provided by my telco go down. I happened to be 2 > hours away from the facility at the time. Tech support said the problem was > the router because they couldn't get to it, and they just wouldn't believe > me that it was up. (I could ping it from the "inside" via the secondary > network connection.) So after I drove to the facility, I noticed that the > HDSL modem (which is line-powered from some box on the street) had no > lights. Ahah! 28 hours later (sigh) they found a blown circuit breaker > somewhere. AH! one thin i have has problems with over the years is cars hitting power poles somewhere and that knocks me off. After last time i put everything thru my highend surge protecter. EVERYTHING was live. i had never [not once in ten years] had the "Internet" flow go south. mine has been green. i saw that all LED's were lit and never thought to see if the lights were all-green or not! live and learn. so, along with "check routers/switches; maybe power cycle" i have use named debug, use traceroute. > > > > > but i've been doing this for a while, and > > until i was away for five days, everything had been going > > fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved > > the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. > > A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a "big" UPS for > your servers, you can afford a "little" one for your telco/network > equipment. such as? brand, model? would it work to just plug my surge protecto into my larger UPS? ---yes, that wouldn't save me from as glitch in this telco router. but since the APC UPC has its own surge filter, i'm thinking, why not/? gary > > -- > Matt Emmerton > > _______________________________________________ > 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