On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:46:02AM -0800, Mike Lyon wrote: > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 7:48, Jack Bates <jba...@brightok.net> wrote: > > > > > > > On 2/17/2012 9:18 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > >> Having worked with many people over the last 40 years, the good trouble > >> shooters understood how things > >> were suppose to work. This helps immeasurably in determining where to > >> start looking. > >> > > > > Ran into this not too long ago with a transport problem. The behavior I was > > seeing was indicative of the transport not stripping their outer tag. They > > put wireshark on a windows laptop and sent me the traffic captures. While I > > didn't know that M$ decided to do something silly like removing a single > > tag, all indicators were that the M$ stack "fixed" whatever was broken > > prior to wireshark. We took a capture from another device and proved the > > problem. > > > > Which is a common transport problem I often see, "Our configuration looks > > right, it must be on your end." > > If i had a dollar for everytime i've heard that from a telco, i'd be a > rich man...
That and "I'm getting a good ping response here" while I've got the cable at my end unplugged from the equipment. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin
