[Leaplist] busted networking equipment?

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 03:41:41 pm Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> The PL on your modem could be from line noise or construction, etc.
>
> The loss on your internal net says your equipment is broken. Either
> tolerate it, or figure out which is causing the problem (switch, nic1,
> nic2, cable a, cable  b). BTW, don't try NFS with PL... it's not very
> tolerant of it. Usually hoses up the NFS server to the point that it needs
> to be killed (usually pull all the power plugs or hold power 4 seconds),
> which isn't exactly the healthiest thing to do to a nice, highly redundant
> file server.

That was my concern.  Sadly I can't justify spending money on even a used 
enterprisy switch.  Maybe I'll see if I can find a new 8-port SOHO switch 
that's not too expensive.

I'll try different cables first, though.

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