[98816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Aug 18 22:54:47 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:45:14 GMT
To: r.engehausen@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Well, if it is a mess of legacy equipment in there .. there's a high
>> chance that everything is connected to a hub, and the faulty network
>> card was flooding the network and causing collisions.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> =
>
>Even more horrible thought: Maybe it was token ring
That is most disgusting. :-)
Except for perhaps Apollo Domain over Thinnet. :-)
- - ferg
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