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One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX
The card in question experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, said Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency. As data overloaded the system, a domino effect occurred with other computer network cards, eventually causing a total system failure. A spokeswoman for the airports agency said airport and customs officials are discussing how to handle a similar incident should it occur in the future.
DHS's idea of a "backup plan" will probably be to build a huge fenced area into which to dump arriving passengers when their systems are down.
At a previous employer, we kept having a Cisco Switch crash and become unresponsive, making about 1/3 of the people connected to it in the office lose connection.
After about 2 to 3 hours of investigation and it going down twice after we'd bring it back up, we soon found the problem. F**king intern, who was worthless anyways and about to get fired for other stupid mishaps had a Netgear switch he was using for setting up new desktops thought it'd be cute to plug one port of the switch to another port on it, that was creating the havoc and bringing down the switch and part of the network for most.
I think he got fired two weeks later. I guess he had it coming since several times for lunch he would go home and take a nap, coming back after 3 or 4 hours cause he had overslept during such hour lunch break.
They have to find someone who can not only design a vital high-traffic network and maintain it... but who didn't have fish for dinner.
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To all you novice net admins out there: network cards do *not* like chunky peanut butter! Smooth/creamy only, please.
Now you see what happens when some joker thinks [s]he can get away with using chunky for something as critical as proper care and feeding of network cards. Pfft.
Bah! Kids these days... I tell ya. Probably the same folks that think the interwebnet is the same as the World Wide Web.
Great, Scott! What's next?!
Running 'Nix is like owning a Lightsaber. It's "a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
In general, it is safe and legal to kill your children. -- POSIX Programmer's Guide
I work in the public sector, and we don't use spit or duct tape much. We have custom software, it's not not ancient but it's written in COBOL anyway. The hardware is mostly new IBM blades and blade centers and we're phasing out the older stuff. We use Access databases, not Excel spreadsheets. But then, we're a state agency, not the Federal Government, so we may be doing it wrong.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Yeah, I had that happen at a small business I consulted for. Their flat LAN died. I eventually tracked the problem down to a cheap unmanaged switch which had a network cable plugged into it for people to plug their laptops into. Whoever used it last thought leaving the unplugged cable laying on the desk looked untidy, so they "helpfully" plugged it into an empty socket on the same switch.
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Man, when a Token Ring card went bad, it was hell on the network, nothing worked because the token would not get passed properly.
The worst thing is when a user decides to unplug the cable to move something or whatever. Then the token can fall out and you have to spend hours on your hands and knees with a magnifying glass trying to find the damn thing!
Its true! I saw it in a Dilbert cartoon!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
But Token Rings are, like, obsolete and stuff, surely there wouldn't be something that obsolete in a place like an airport, right?
Right?
[crickets chirping]
Right?
Flappinbooger isn't my real name
It was a single chip on the NIC.
It was a single register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single junction on the transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single molecule on the junction on the transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single atom in the molecule on the junction on the transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single proton in the atom in the molecule on the junction on the transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC.
It was a single quark in the proton in the atom in the molecule on the junction on the transistor on the gate on the register on the chip on the NIC- and I'm looking at you, Strange!!