On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Glad you are back ... I think ... fully appreciating Rich Shepard requires > peculiar tastes :-)
Keith, Nice to know _someone_ appreciates me. :-) > Your firewall/router and modem/switch probably have optional settings that > can block incoming ports (which you probably do not use). My further guess > is that these settings are stored in EPROM, and expanded into live code in > faster RAM at device boot time. The code in RAM can be upset by static > electricity, cosmic rays, evil gremlins, and probable for this time of > year, power glitches. Ah, so. > A deep power cycle ( more than 10 seconds should be plenty ) will restore > the modem/router to status quo ante; a quick off/on may not clear the RAM > or trigger a full reset. I always power cycle deeply. When the capacitors finish draining (the electron pool on the desktop stops growing) and I know it's time to turn it back on. > With physical access to your device, A risky undertaking that, even without 'stand your ground' or 'castle domain' legislation in Oregon ... fortunately! Thanks for the insight, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
