From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 18:08:14 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 46FF81065690 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:08:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037A68FC14 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie13 with SMTP id 13so1468142yie.13 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:08:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Yf2BNRHSN63yDj7nnAin4H2+IH1fzsjZIAuD/qFTtrA=; b=B7gb3f/YwqA5J0TeiXymPDy3VjvXWwBfntevW5fdikMrGQMbiTvWb4D1PkR3BAumBu KHk8wxK2LoR/ET/l73zg3xiaT7K2ClJ2kOsgTmd+fqaVf7oEc1aEKj891U2wTvuTUfdM Mc2Zz2HAUNrOIq3q5iQXL451pb6y6LASxC2qU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jICHCA4hZlgrQ47KPp9LW9uivglQ1wG/BW8sYfnFsvyqziQjVPUKCgf9pUBVSPg0+S 4FBe5bGOLUJulG0hzB6vYe9CBLGwEaNjCxe8Hwhn0/zrTIrN3iXFGziWOArHU928YgJf DL6/ka5jsDr7FKLillNRIYMI0CBPOYXHx5epY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.56.25 with SMTP id e25mr1026451ana.11.1307642893140; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.174.2 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:08:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:08:12 -0600 Message-ID: From: Modulok To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 18:08:14 -0000 >> 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. I've had a Linksys switch crap out. I've also had a Netgear switch die. In fact, there were three Netgear switches that died within a few months of each other. At first they would simply lock up at random. After that they didn't work at all. We later discovered it was a capacitor problem. (Google 'capacitor plague'.) We replaced it with a HP ProCurve switch a few years ago and it has been rock solid ever since. My only complaint is the proCurve has a very inaccurate internal clock, but that is easily remedied by configuring ntpd on it. So yeah, even solid state stuff can die! -Modulok-