DOH! ----- WARNING ----- While using a hammer to strike a nail, do not strike self with hammer and do not drive nail into self. ---------------------------------------------- Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sacramento, CA http://leaf.blkmtn.org who has not had any recent* DOH moments *Defined - recent - a time period lasting approximately 5 minutes to 5 days depending on the reliability of my memory at any given moment. -----Original Message----- From: George Metz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Leaf-devel] Pardon me while I shoot myself. =) What a week and a half. For those who were wondering why I was being totally silent for the last week and a half, my DSL line went down Friday before last. We had a power outage in my neighborhood, and in the process, Something Went Kablooey(tm) on my router. After replacing the disk, then the drive, I got fed up with it for a bit, and just plugged in my main box to the DSL line, so I could at least get e-mail. And then I discovered that I was getting 90% packet loss on average. Oh Joy. I called Speakeasy. They called Covad. Covad ran a loop test, and saw a hard short on the line. Real easy to spot, somewhat of a pain to fix on occasion. Covad sets up a Verizon dispatch for Tuesday AM. Verizon comes and goes before I realise they're there, and only knew they were because of the fact that I saw the truck pulling away. Still no change. Call Speakeasy. They tell me that my worst fears are true: The ticket was referred to Verizon Cable Maintenance for work. Cable Maint will only EVER tell you that it takes three to five business days to complete. I suck it up. Thursday rolls around, I've been down for 6 days. I call Speakeasy. They tell me it's fixed, I tell them it's not. They call Covad, Covad runs loop test, find resistance - the baby brother of a hard short - on the line, and want to send out VZ. Okay. Fine. About now, I'm getting worried, because Covad's Service Level Objectives - not agreements - state that they'll make two dispatches on best effort to fix an ADSL or RADSL line. This includes Verizon Dispatches. I also smell a rat, since my DSL Modem has been synced the entire time. I call back Friday. They haven't set up the dispatch; they need availability. (They don't really, since Verizon never even enters the building. That, and I already gave it to them once.) I give it to them. I call Monday afternoon. They STILL have not set this up, because they never got the availability times. I'm getting really pissy at this point, because I could troubleshoot the issue myself a HELL of a lot better than this. So, I call back Tuesday. Apparently, the Monday through Friday dispatch times weren't working for them the first time, so I resubmit. They set it up, and they go out and fix it today, at around 6:50pm EST. STILL have 90% loss. I start looking at my LAN. Three things. One, RADSL - which is all that Covad sells these days - is REALLY REALLY impressing the hell out of me. With the issues on my circuit, there is NO WAY that ANYTHING should've gotten through. In fact, the DSL Modem never should have been able to sync up. Two; the second router disk I made had a flubbed config or two. Not sure how, but hey. Also, the drive had failed, so I needed to swap that out. Three; I have a very very expensive NIC in my system - 3Com 3c905C w/complete remote management capabilities - and it DECIDEDLY does NOT like autonegotiation with a SpeedStream 5260 DSL Modem. 10Mbit doesn't cut it. So if you're still with me to this point, the reason I was away was that I was down for a week and a half due to a misconfigured syslinux.cfg file and a NIC that doesn't like to work right unless it's running at 100BaseTX. I hate when that happens. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Brigadier General Douglas Richardson, USAF, Commander - Space Warfare Center _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
