From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 04:19:11 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 67F18106564A for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A2B8FC12 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 10211658; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:19:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.232] (account jon@radel.com HELO gravenstein.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 10211656 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:18:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:18:52 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer 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 04:19:11 -0000 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