Isn't it amazing that one can be so cheap it ends up biting them in the arse?
There's a difference between frugal and cheap. Being cheap comes back to you, it's like Karma.... > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:09 -0500 > From: larryshel...@cox.net > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Latency question > > On 3/18/2010 11:00, Brandon Kim wrote: > > > > That was pretty quick. > > > > > > But what do you mean by spewing stuff? It would help the rest of us > > understand for possible future issues we may run into ourselves..... > > Good question. Without thinking about it I saw in my mind's eye a > situation we used to see at $EX-EMPLOYER (who was fond of the absolute > smallest-dollar-amount-per-immediate-problem "solutions") who bout toy > 4-port hubs by the pallet-load. > > These little gems had the endearing habit of spewing random bits onto > the wire whenever the wall-wart failed--which they frequently did. > > I had MRTG graphs of every switch and router port so I could quickly > determine which leg the current culprit was on. > > Never solved the problem of having two or three go bad, which, believe > it or not, complicates the issue. > > But the graphs did allow me to identify the port and shut it down saving > the rest of the network. > > > > > > > > > >> Subject: Re: Latency quesstion From: dennis-li...@thenose.net Date: > >> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:50:20 -0500 To: nanog@nanog.org > >> > >> Found a MAC address spewing stuff. looks like we have our culprit. > >> thanks EVERYONE! > >> > >> -Dennis > >> > >> On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Dennis Dayman wrote: > >> > >>> have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple > >>> switches, etc and they started to have latency issues this > >>> weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder > >>> shares, printers, etc. Suggestions on how they can troubleshoot > >>> that? call in a company to help identify it? > >>> > >>> -Dennis > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > -- > Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu. > (A republic, using parliamentary law, protects the minority.) > > Requiescas in pace o email > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio > Eppure si rinfresca > > ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs > http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml > > >
