[nylug-talk] NIC help

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Sunny Dubey wrote:

> On Friday 07 December 2007 01:37:28 pm Ajai Khattri wrote:
> > The strange behaviour started after a series of power outages in our data
> > center (*cough* Level 3 *cough*).
> 
> The ones they casually forgot to tell people about until their machines 
> started to overheat ? ..


The kind where a bunch of electricians start working on the power wiring 
for a row of cabinets and the company doesn't think it a good idea to let 
customers know about the maintenance work. I got the call at 3am and when 
I got there the foreman says "we didn't touch your cabinet" (meanwhile all 
of our servers, switches, routers, in two full cabinets, went down at 
exactly the same time), as the main power to the cabinets was cut...

OK, so shit happens and it's easy to just forget about it and move on. But 
then SAME EXACT THING happened again a day or two later... 


In the case of this particular server, the NIC failed to autonegotiate 
full duplex the first time round. That was several months ago, now we're 
seeing lots of transmit errors...



-- 
Aj.