RE: Latency question

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

Isn't it amazing that one can be so cheap it ends up biting them in the arse?

There's a difference between frugal and cheap. Being cheap comes back to you,
it's like Karma....




> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:09 -0500
> From: LarrySheldon () cox net
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Latency question
>
> On 3/18/2010 11:00, Brandon Kim wrote:
> > That was pretty quick.
> >
> >
> > But what do you mean by spewing stuff? It would help the rest of us
> > understand for possible future issues we may run into ourselves.....
>
> Good question.  Without thinking about it I saw in my mind's eye a
> situation we used to see at $EX-EMPLOYER (who was fond of the absolute
> smallest-dollar-amount-per-immediate-problem "solutions") who bout toy
> 4-port hubs by the pallet-load.
>
> These little gems had the endearing habit of spewing random bits onto
> the wire whenever the wall-wart failed--which they frequently did.
>
> I had MRTG graphs of every switch and router port  so I could quickly
> determine which leg the current culprit was on.
>
> Never solved the problem of having two or three go bad, which, believe
> it or not, complicates the issue.
>
> But the graphs did allow me to identify the port and shut it down saving
> the rest of the network.
> > > Subject: Re: Latency quesstion From: dennis-lists () thenose net Date:
> > > Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:50:20 -0500 To: nanog () nanog org
> > >
> > > Found a MAC address spewing stuff. looks like we have our culprit.
> > > thanks EVERYONE!
> > >
> > > -Dennis
> > >
> > > On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Dennis Dayman wrote:
> > >
> > > > have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple
> > > > switches, etc and they started to have latency issues this
> > > > weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder
> > > > shares, printers, etc. Suggestions on how they can troubleshoot
> > > > that? call in a company to help identify it?
> > > >
> > > > -Dennis
>
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