Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]
From: Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca snip but i've been doing this for a while, and until i was away for five days, everything had been going fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a big UPS for your servers, you can afford a little one for your telco/network equipment. I'm using some PoE kit to power the router remotely down it's LAN cable, that in turn run's from the protected supply from the UPS. Said UPS also powers the main network switch, as well as my own LAN server (f'BSD based, to stay vaguely on toppic!) Plus two other PC's and a NAS device. It'll hold that lot up, for over 20 minutes when the lights go out (the longest unscheduled outage so far.) It's also configured to NOT come back, if it runs down and cuts out. I'll do that manually if needed. (Not so far.) I never did get the BSD port of APCUPSD to work correctly. All works well. Also, easy to do a router Hard restart, without going to the router itself. And if it does all die, it fails safe. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:48:09 -0400 From: Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca Subject: RE: much to my surprise [ now trending #OT ] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 *Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying INT in red LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green. and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other network things will work too. The Mark I eyeball is an amazing tool. well, cant be sure, but my router is q1000. [?] I recently had a HDSL link provided by my telco go down. I happened to be 2 hours away from the facility at the time. Tech support said the problem was the router because they couldn't get to it, and they just wouldn't believe me that it was up. (I could ping it from the inside via the secondary network connection.) So after I drove to the facility, I noticed that the HDSL modem (which is line-powered from some box on the street) had no lights. Ahah! 28 hours later (sigh) they found a blown circuit breaker somewhere. AH! one thin i have has problems with over the years is cars hitting power poles somewhere and that knocks me off. After last time i put everything thru my highend surge protecter. EVERYTHING was live. i had never [not once in ten years] had the Internet flow go south. mine has been green. i saw that all LED's were lit and never thought to see if the lights were all-green or not! live and learn. so, along with check routers/switches; maybe power cycle i have use named debug, use traceroute. snip but i've been doing this for a while, and until i was away for five days, everything had been going fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a big UPS for your servers, you can afford a little one for your telco/network equipment. such as? brand, model? would it work to just plug my surge protecto into my larger UPS? ---yes, that wouldn't save me from as glitch in this telco router. but since the APC UPC has its own surge filter, i'm thinking, why not/? gary -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Dave wrote:
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:27:57 +0100
From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: much to my surprise [ now trending #OT ]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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From: Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca
snip
but i've been doing this for a while, and
until i was away for five days, everything had been going
fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved
the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized.
A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a big UPS
for your servers, you can afford a little one for your telco/network
equipment.
I'm using some PoE kit to power the router remotely down it's LAN cable,
that in turn run's from the protected supply from the UPS. Said UPS also
powers the main network switch, as well as my own LAN server (f'BSD
based, to stay vaguely on toppic!) Plus two other PC's and a NAS device.
It'll hold that lot up, for over 20 minutes when the lights go out (the
longest unscheduled outage so far.) It's also configured to NOT come
back, if it runs down and cuts out. I'll do that manually if needed.
(Not so far.) I never did get the BSD port of APCUPSD to work correctly.
All works well. Also, easy to do a router Hard restart, without going
to the router itself. And if it does all die, it fails safe.
Regards.
Dave B.
see, if i had help at =your= level of expertise, i'd be
fine. 4 days in the icu is still ,messing me up a bit, but
i grok most of what you're saying to matt.
Oh, and for those who suggested i hire somebody instead of
relying on volunteers:: while there is a seattle linux
group, gslug, i know 0.0 people who have a clue about BSD.
i've asked around--the senior techs at the telco have no
clue when i [or someone who can speak] mentioned 'unix'.
i've tried to find some students at the u/washington. zip.
linux, a few people mumble, 'yes, ive heard of that.' but
unix, or berkeley unix , or sun unix. {gawk: Orifice unix,
rather} Zero.
BTW, ive not had time nor savvy to get the APC UPS Port
installed. besides, right now, there in only one 2009 dell
2-cpu on the battery. it has saved state twice. but i
=still= had to get down and crawl around with flashlight in
teeth and power off stuff. -no, no 'poor gary'; that's just
the bare facts.
-g
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RE: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]
*Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying INT in red LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green. and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other network things will work too. The Mark I eyeball is an amazing tool. I recently had a HDSL link provided by my telco go down. I happened to be 2 hours away from the facility at the time. Tech support said the problem was the router because they couldn't get to it, and they just wouldn't believe me that it was up. (I could ping it from the inside via the secondary network connection.) So after I drove to the facility, I noticed that the HDSL modem (which is line-powered from some box on the street) had no lights. Ahah! 28 hours later (sigh) they found a blown circuit breaker somewhere. snip but i've been doing this for a while, and until i was away for five days, everything had been going fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a big UPS for your servers, you can afford a little one for your telco/network equipment. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
