On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:12:00 +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > Yuri: > Worm? Virus? Broken network switch? Server down? Rodents chewed cat5 cable? > > The answer is that someone had plugged a flylead back into the next socket. > That's all. One would have thought the switch, or the upstream switch would > have partitioned one or other ports off.... But nope. Instead the entire > network went to shite.
So I was close with "Broken network switch". I meant to type "Broken network switch _setup_" (plugging both ends of a flylead into the same switch is a broken setup). So, what's my prize? -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
