Got blasted...

[C M Reinehr]

Hi Jerry,

Have you had any nearby electrical storms. I had something similar happen a 
number of years ago, caused by a nearby lightening strike. As best I could 
determine the damage was caused by the radio pulse rather than a surge over 
the power connection.

Cheers!

cmr

On Tue 16 December 2008 18:21, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Came home tonight and was greeted with... "Dad... the internet is dead"...
>
> And indeed it was. Number one son was not able to surf for homework and
> number one wife was piss... angry that she couldn't watch reruns on FOX...
>
> I plugged in my laptop and started simple pings to all local IP's and found
> I was able to ping "most local clients" and nothing going out the linux
> router to the internet. Hmmm... his was something very new...
>
> Taking my dead list down stairs to the "it room"...  there was  a definite
> pattern to the failure. All dead IP's were on the same Linksys switch. I
> swapped out that Linksys switch box and all but two clients came back on
> line and access outside was restored. Hmmm a dead switch... The install
> date on the switch made it 10 years old. The dust on said switch would have
> made it much older...
>
> A little more time with the two dead clients turned up two dead, on board
> ethernet interfaces!  Grab two new Dlink nicks from my travel kit,
> recompile kernels for new hardware support and both clients back up and
> running
>
> Yipes... we got hit hard, but the question is, "from where"?
>
> How does an 8port switch and two onboard Nic's get toasted and nothing else
> is touched? Amazing. I'll be picking up a new backup switch and a couple of
> PCI NIC's tomorrow to replentish my backup supply. Hmmm... maybe now is a
> good time to look into giga bit upgrade for the house... gotta' talk o the
> wife some more...
>
> Gee... this seems just like work.... but I love it.
>
> Cheers all.

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