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Re: solar flares effecting anyone else?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Wed Apr 11 19:04:02 2001

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jim Mercer wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:08:49PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > We've been having problems with solar flares, clock speed and electromagnetic
> > radiation from satellite debris.  I told our people to power surge the
> > drivers though, and now everything's ok.
> 
> what does "power surge the drivers" mean?

It involves placing a reverse quantum bias on the line drivers. This
causes an enormous electromagnetic flux which purges out any stray bogons,
which are often the cause of mysterious route flapping.

Duh.

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