Got blasted...

[Jerry McBride]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008 10:30:45 am C M Reinehr wrote:
> 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
>

Absolutely none. Just a bit of drizzle and some snow flakes... Nothing like 
storms or electrical disturbances... A radio surge would, kinda, make 
sense... but as far as I know, my son has yet to discover EMP devices...

I'll probably mark this down as an "unknown cause" and be happy with my new 
giga bit network that wifey approved.

Cheers...





> 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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