Got blasted...

[Bob Hemus]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:21 -0500, 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.
> 
> 
Golly, you young guyw.  We oplder fellas just tell 'em what to do.  ;<)
Bob