Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:18:52 -0400 From: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep> Message-ID: <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> In-Reply-To: <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra>
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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." BTW, Gary, Linksys=Cisco is pretty much just a marketing thing and not a technology thing. --Jon Radel
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