Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>

[reese at adeptscience.com]

Not a switch but I have had a router and two PCs just die in the last 
year.  I know the agony of having to restore things that weren't 
broken as I went through that with the router.  I hate to have to fix 
things that I broke trying to find out what was broke, as bad as 
having to rewrite code after you have a working system and 
your drive fails without a backup.

This to shall pass.

Charlie




On 9 Jun 2011 at 3:45, Bill Tillman wrote:

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> From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 8:56:59 PM
> Subject: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
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> Well, people, 
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> It's been a long, long century.  I've been down for 5 days.
> Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the
> Server itself].  Finally, tho, it became more and more likely that
> my FreeBSD was fine ... even tho I kept stripping the most likely
> problem points.  My large 16-port LinkSys router was either *it* or
> it was some kind of bug unknown to geekdom.  After a friend bought
> me a new (and tiny) 8-port switch, yes!  I could ping everywhere.  
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> 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.  
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> After wandering in the wilderness for 5 days, <<mmph>>, dunno.  
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> gary
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> PS: yes, this is a serious question.  1) I like things-Cisco, and 
> LinkSys.  I just bought this switch about 2.5 years ago, so I really
> am looking for feedback.
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> PPS:  Another question to ask about upgrading is next.
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> -- 
> Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
>           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
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> Good to hear you're back on line. But to answer your question about parts going 
> bad. I haven't had much go bad on me in the last 10 years but back in the 1990's 
> when I was doing pure IT work and was making lots of purchases of parts I did. 
> Now you have to remember that back then a 28.8 modem cost $375 and cell phones 
> were only in the hands of the very rich and very important. I could buy parts 
> and sometimes find them defective out of the box. Others would work fine.
> 
> Today, I haven't bought many new components because everything is working. My 
> switch has been operating fine for the last five years. I replaced my FreeBSD 
> sever a few years ago. It was a P166 with 96MB RAM and it had been running 
> almost non-stop, 24/7 for 12 years. But then I had another machine right next to 
> it that I built in 2002 and it whimped out only a couple of years later and I 
> hardly ever ran that machine. 
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> In today's world, I would say that the majority of the parts you buy will be 
> good to go, but that's why parts only come with a 90 or 1 year warranty. The 
> manufacturers know when to back off their guarantees on electronic components.
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