• IWasTrolled (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    ...threats that 'heads would roll'...
    I know I always solve problems so much faster when threatened with decapitation.
    Your not too smart, are you?

    *you're

  • (cs) in reply to nonpartisan
    nonpartisan:
    This happens with any broadcast traffic. It doesn't have to be an ARP request, just anything with a broadcast address. This is what the layer 2 Spanning Tree Protocol is supposed to prevent. All things being equal, it should have blocked port 4. Although there's a physical connection, there is a logical block between ports 3 and 4 so that the loop doesn't occur. However, if ports 3 and 4 are programmed to only be attached to endpoint devices (Cisco calls it PortFast; not sure what other companies call it), then Spannning Tree Protocol is effectively disabled on those ports and you can still end up with a loop like was described above.
    We actually had this happen to us last week. We had a cabler out to move a field outlet for a printer (i.e. physically recable it). After spending an hour doing most of the work they decided it was too hard (?) and would just use an existing outlet in the room the printer was moved to. When they repatched the cables in the comms room, they somehow managed to connect one of the switch ports to another switch port.

    They were configured for portfast, but also with bpduguard enabled - so when the switch saw its own STP discovery packets it just disabled both the ports. Only cost to us was a bit of time working out what the heck they'd done and undoing it.

  • Eddy (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    method1:
    Misusing your/you're, they're/their/there etc. does seem to be a good indicator of mediocre intelligence.(Only applies to people whose 1st language is English, of course)
    As is using 1st instead of frist in prose other than for dates.

    FTFY

  • (cs)

    Once again "storytelling" managed to completely obfuscate the story on TDWTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Those who live in glass houses...
    Those who live in glass houses...:
    neminem:
    Those who live in glass houses... I think you're living in the past. Specifically, yesterday.

    And, we once lost internet building-wide for an entire morning because some moron was (legitimately) drilling into a wall, and drilled the wrong place, right into the wall of the server room, right into some cabling. That was fun. This definitely beats it, though.

    I wish all you ivory tower wannabes would get off your high horses. Yesterday IS today! Do you even know what the international date line is? Two different dates in different parts of the world. Yesterday is still today at some point. Now STFU.
    Timecube!

  • corrector (unregistered) in reply to frits

    No, maybe you're not too smart.

  • foxyshadis (unregistered)

    Most likely, they also had to replace the switch after finding that. If you guys have never had to troubleshoot the case of a broken switch rebooting itself every minute or two, you're pretty lucky; I can easily imagine that one that had mains power applied to its innards would have a few important bits toasted (but still half-functional).

  • Sitaram Chamarty (unregistered)

    I saw the first 20-30 comments and they all seem to have missed the point.

    I think the real message is the amount of nepotism all through the narration.

    I need to send this to my son, who, for some reason, seems to think such things only happen in India (where we live). He has this glorified notion that a lot of the Western world is immune to stuff like this. Relatively immune, maybe, but I'm sure it happens enough!

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