[Rack] Network woes

[Jonathan Lassoff]

The other humor from our clean-up the other night was that we found the
POTS line for the DSL modem hooked up to a coupler and patched into the
switch!

God forbid anyone should call our DSL line number and send 90 volts, 20 Hz
AC in our Ethernet magnetics!

No wonder that thing was failing pretty hard. :p

--j

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> I'm here, just taking a first look at the switch.
> The Cisco/Linksys SRW2048 is a cheap piece of shit, but it's also the
> only port-heavy fan-out switch we have.
>
> Ronin is online, and I get link to my laptop, but its switchport is down.
> Curiously, exactly half of the ports refuse to bring up a link,
> despite all being configured "on".
>
> My Juniper only has 24 ports.
>
> We should replace it. Pretty much any decent 48-port 10/100 (GigE
> would be a nice-to-have) would do.
> Any recommendations? Personally, I've mainly dealt with Cisco,
> Brocade, Arista, and Juniper in the 1U rack switch product category.
> All can be pretty expensive, new.
>
> Are there any decent, highly-configurable 48-port Ethernet 1U switches?
>
> Be back around 9 or so to meet up with Ben.
> I'm headed to Sycamore to relax and eat.
>
> Cheers,
> jof
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> > Sounds great to me!
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
> >> How about meetup at 9pm?
> >>
> >> -ben
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> >>
> >>> Actually, I was thinking of stopping by tonight to kick that switch,
> >>> and get the mode-s box back up.
> >>>
> >>> I'm down to make some JunOS configuration with you.
> >>>
> >>> -j
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll be over in the mission tonight, I'll see if I can poke at things.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jof, are you going to be around sometime?  I'd like to work on getting
> >>>> vlans
> >>>> setup on the Juniper
> >>>>
> >>>> -ben
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>> Did it change IPs? Did it get disconnected? Is it on?
> >>>>>>> Many things could have happened.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The last time this happened a few months ago, the culprit was
> >>>>>> the switch that it was plugged into which went tech and needed
> >>>>>> to be rebooted.  Is there anyone around the space who could check on
> >>>>>> this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> BTW, the device that collects and decodes the data (172.30.0.52) is
> also
> >>>>> not reachable, and I believe they are both plugged into the same
> switch.
> >>>>> This narrows down considerably what the problem is.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /jordan _______________________________________________
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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