From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 02:48:10 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 CCBD6106564A for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:48:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from kane.compar.com (mx1.compar.com [207.236.25.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5888FC14 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hermes (unknown [192.168.0.18]) by kane.compar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04D315B28EC for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:58:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matt Emmerton" To: References: <201109222014.p8MKEobt083145@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4B62F4A4-4B49-4CB5-91F1-A3C3E624251F@d3photography.com> <20110923013119.GA8424@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110923013119.GA8424@thought.org> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:48:09 -0400 Message-ID: <000b01cc799b$3abfec90$b03fc5b0$@on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acx5kfaEgGnVrk+mRUCSMJo/E3CpTgABsdsg Content-Language: en-us 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 02:48:10 -0000 >> >> *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. 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. > 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. -- Matt Emmerton