14.5 hour outage today
 

The Cellar was unavailable from 10:50 pm EST to about 1:15 pm EST today.

The problem was that the internet provider's router was unable to work with the switch that I drove down there last week, replacing the identical switch that their router was unable to work with.

Apparently their support does not operate after-hours.

The replacement of the replacement switch is from a different vendor, and so it is hoped that this is the last of our switch-router interoperability woes. It is certainly the last time I have to prove that if there is a problem it is not on my end. The next outage, if there is one, is all on them and will not require me to drive hours and hours to solve.

For all you do, this bud's for you.:joint:

'ere

Ya bogartin' son of a gun...

My humble thanks, sir.

Damn hippie! That's the vendor's problem not the solution. :)

Thanks for taking another for the team brother.

I'm actually hoping that it was the switch so that this fixes it permanently. The first switch was an older Linksys; the second was the *hub* version of the older Linksys; the new one is a Netgear "Prosafe" which was more expensive - but hopefully, is "pro" quality as opposed to "consumer grade".

(Protip: very few computing items actually considered "pro" or "enterprise" grade are sold in stores.)

It's also a giggety-bit switch even though none of the ports it connects to are giggety-bit.

Quagmire?

Your packets were wondering around in that huge pipeline and got lost. I think I saw some of them skateboarding.

How many of you geeks LOL'd at Flint? Come on admit it, you knew what he was talking about.

giggety giggety

I don't even watch the show, but it's way fun to say giggety. to your male friends after a hot chick walks by

Ahem. Because I am NOT of Nerd Kingdom I didn't get it at all.

damn nerds.

you rock, mr undertoad.

I thought you spilled beer on the server...
Oh no, wait, this isn't Fark... :)

At risk of geeking everybody out, what exactly was this router/switch incompatibility? That sounds unlikely.... if you've got something like non-matching netmasks, or two different VLANs, sure. But that's a configuration/software error not an "incompatibility."

They said that their auto-detect was only connecting to my switch/hub at 10mb+half-duplex, which was then accumulating collisions until the router port would shut down.

translation:

they spilled coffee on your baby....

Thanks for the fix! I missed you guys.

Especially because I was trying to find out why my mum's internet kept dropping out (long story, help line was of little help, fixed it by borrowing the neighbour's modem) and was using access to the cellar as a test. Oops.

Thanks again!

The Cellar: You'll get a survey about us - just mark "excellent" in every category but gas mileage.


Thanx UT.

I don't get the geeky bits
All I know is I had to do some work yesterday!

Still - it was the best day it could have happened...

Good to see you again
You do a great job Mr U