On 17 September 2010 04:27, Forbes Mercy <[email protected]>wrote:
> How my day ended, I really don't mean to slight Mikrotik or it's dealers. > People who route their networks will have a fraction of the problems I have > but I have to admit the excuse of "must be your employees" or " that never > happens" got old about 20 outages ago. Today I had 8 major outages, 4 of > them we found a bridge or ports erased and the IP displaying 0.0.0.0. This > was an easy fix, log in and add the bridge and ports then click on the IP > and it came back legitimate again. Shame we had to make the trip to the > towers to do that. The other 4 not so easy, they showed the IP correctly > but not in Winbox and they had the MAC address as 00.00.00.00.00, well 12 > times, you get it. Those we had to pull the backhaul and reset it then > reprogram it. A hellish day but we didn't miss the fact that the UBNT units > never crashed no matter what this crazy bridging issue was. It was just a > real bad day to be in this business but I appreciate the help that I got > from Mikrotik dealers who really care to help resolve this but are as > equally frustrated as I was, while aging about 3 years in one day. Like > watching a baby sleep the night is uneventful after a 15 hour work day and > my with my added worry about taking 4 vacation days this weekend. I wish I > could trust the equipment from overreacting to every damn bit of unfriendly > traffic by shutting down the LAN port or resetting the radio but I can't, > it's my employees problem now but it will certainly take away from the joy > of my time off since I know their attitude is more like, 'let them wait' > then my feeling of 'people down is lost income', employees.... > What hardware do you run MT on, and what versions of the software are you using?
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