[30125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: solar storm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sun Jul 16 04:41:48 2000
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@COLT.NET>
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In-Reply-To: <20000715204027.A4198@weezel.net> from Dave Curado at "Jul 15, 2000 08:40:27 pm"
To: davec@weezel.net (Dave Curado)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:39:42 +0100 (BST)
Cc: sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan), nanog@merit.edu
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I've had two pos cards fail on me this weekend. Now I have to plan
our oncall rota according to solar flare activity!
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> We seem to get more ram parity errors on our cisco gear
> during solar flare activity. Some believe that the cosmic
> rays generated from such events zap the memory.
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> davec
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> > I haven't been tracking outages through an entire 11 year sunspot
> > cycle yet, it only seems like forever. I've looked for correlations
> > of unexplained outages or directly attributable outages with previous
> > solar flare warnings, but so far nothing detectable shows up.
> >
> > There are normal satellite outages twice a year as the sun crosses
> > the Clarke belt. I've also noticed a 3,6,9 year technology obsolence
> > cycle when old equipment fails before companies replace it.
> >
> > On Sat, 15 July 2000, smd@clock.org wrote:
> > > Forgive this temporary segue into a potential operational issue.
> > >
> > > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sunspot000714.html
> > >
> > > I would find it interesting if any outages observed by Sean Donelan
> > > or others could be attributed to this solar storm; alternatively,
> > > any higher than average incidence of outages and failures would
> > > be interesting from a correlation analysis perspective.
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> >
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