[145511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: nanog53 network status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Oct 10 21:31:41 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAOS5L+5Ypy-cbFhYrRe=8V_F94+5o-bPiSA3JDzT+j5L8H_SBA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noah Weis" <nweis@verilan.com>
> We identified a link between 2 switches that was having intermittent
> physical errors just a bit ago. The offending copper bits have been thrown
> to the depths of hell. There were several access points in the center of
> Millenium Hall that were fed via this link and, as such, most likely
> contributed to some of the issues people were seeing this morning.
Suggestion: you (and everyone else who's ever in your position at a Large
Networking Conference) should *run a netops blog, and make sure it's well
publicized in the week leading up to the conference -- and at registration*.
Or, even, run a Twitter account to which people can subscribe from their
cellphones via SMS, on which you announce problems and fixes.
Communications, *way* ahead of the curve, ameliorates the impact of this
sort of problems remarkably.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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