What's happening

[Kurt Buff]

Well, sorta true.

We know that he lost connectivity for 13 minutes. As you said, there
are many reasons why this might be so, and several were suggested. The
two most likely are:

1) power loss to the switch
2) somebody disconnected the cable, then replaced it

Clearly, however, it isn't port negotiation - not over 13 minutes.
Unfortunately, he probably doesn't have a central syslog server that
collects data from hosts and other equipment, because that's the only
way to tell for sure. Things like UPS power loss/fluctuation
notifications, switch bootup notifications, etc., in the syslog would
provide the necessary data.

Kurt


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 14:00, Gary Gatten<Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:
> There's not NEARLY enough info in OP to answer this - I can't believe
> anyone is even trying.  It could be many dozen different things.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech
> Puchar
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:47 PM
> To: Robert Huff
> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What's happening
>
>>> >
>>> > Jun 23 17:09:09 zeus kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
>>> > Jun 23 17:22:25 zeus kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP
>
> look at time. it's 13 minutes down
>