From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 18:55:56 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 283971065670 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.38.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E58D48FC15 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12166 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jun 2011 18:55:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2011 18:55:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=k+ziu+FcEbGWOrrQJ0KxwryN7jiF1yAeui3G+/6OMZJoJlZd7qb8RobSQmCgWS9srtXG/JY+H2djTIE+kM37IOpxczLxaGWXXwcjY4Nj0EqkypIwOdkuLtfGpBIN8cYb; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUkOY-0003z9-29 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:55:55 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:41:01 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:41:01 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20110609184101.GB33714@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: 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 18:55:56 -0000 --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011: > >=20 > > I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no long= er > > worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no > > evident reason. >=20 > I have, twice. Both times it was a Linksys switch, too. Just suddenly, > no network. After the second one, I decided to switch (har) to a Netgear > GS116. Haven't had any trouble with it so far (knocks on head), but I've > only had it about a year. I've been a little leery of Netgear switches after that little episode at the colocation facility where the BigIron switch was taken down by the Netgear's freak-out while unplugging the fiber optic line, but in truth I don't have enough experience with Netgear to know whether that was just some kind of bizarre one-time deal or a problem with Netgear. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3xE70ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKU6IwCeIjBCMriY30dtyGE4RHw4uMTG ayAAnj0u73Gh+HhOPngB58Gh6oWrmMAx =1U3T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg--