Do something like this? http://xkcd.com/730/ -- richard
James Forbis <[email protected]> wrote on 09/22/2010 01:54:08 PM: > Did anyone make any wiring changes lately? Maybe you had a spanning- > tree loop.. > > > > From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:45 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: My whole network went down! > > So anyway, we lost all connectivity around noon at our main office. > After some various checks on the servers, I try to ping some of them > from my workstation and every so often I get a reply but mostly its > timing out. I go to our wire closet and shut off the UPS that all > our switches are on, bring them back up and low and behold > everything is working again. Anyone have any idea what one of these > switches was doing to bring the network to its knees? If it happens > again I will restart them individually to see which one caused the > drama. Network was down for 45 minutes, not happy. > > James > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
