[124888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Wed Apr 7 10:51:32 2010
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:50:43 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <201004071118.o37BIvK1022393@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/07/2010 04:18 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> To me, this is a Dilbert-class engineering failure. I would imagine that
> if you could implement a hub on the network card, the same chip(s) would
> work in an external tin can with a separate power supply. Designing a
> product that actually exhibits a worse failure mode than 10base2 is ...
> strange to me.
This reminds of me of the failure-mode-within-a-failure-mode of 10b2 with
vaxstation2000's using vms's vaxcluster software. Unplugging the 10b2 gave
you a window of about 10 seconds before one by one every vaxstation2000
would bugcheck. I was always rather astonished that nobody at DEC either
noticed it, or thought it was a very big deal because the bug survived a
long time.
Mike
