RE: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-26 Thread Jim Devane
: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746] As far as I can tell there is no one definitive known reason but several plausible reasons. I also understand some cultures like the Chinese consider 13 lucky:) Dave Raj wrote: Anybody knows when

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Always use ports 7 and 14. They're lucky. From: John Neiberger Date: 2003/07/22 Tue PM 04:53:08 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746] This is not a joke, I promise, but it is very strange. Have any of you noticed that by far the most problematic port

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread MADMAN
There is a reason many hotels don't have a 13th floor;) Dave John Neiberger wrote: This is not a joke, I promise, but it is very strange. Have any of you noticed that by far the most problematic port on the Catalyst 2950 switches is port 13? I'd bet money that at least 20% of the time

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread Raj
Anybody knows when and how did the number 13 get so unpopular? Whats the story behind it? MADMAN wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a reason many hotels don't have a 13th floor;) Dave John Neiberger wrote: This is not a joke, I promise, but it is very strange. Have any

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread Kent Hundley
It's a long story... http://www.naplesnews.com/today/restate/a120401k.htm -Kent On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:28, Raj wrote: Anybody knows when and how did the number 13 get so unpopular? Whats the story behind it? MADMAN wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a reason many

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread MADMAN
As far as I can tell there is no one definitive known reason but several plausible reasons. I also understand some cultures like the Chinese consider 13 lucky:) Dave Raj wrote: Anybody knows when and how did the number 13 get so unpopular? Whats the story behind it? MADMAN wrote in

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread
MADMAN wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a reason many hotels don't have a 13th floor;) problem is that 13 is unlucky only among western eurtopeans or those who have been subsumed in our culture. perhaps some from other parts of the world on this list have experience with other

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread
Kent Hundley wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a long story... http://www.naplesnews.com/today/restate/a120401k.htm in a way, that validates the Christian tradion, because Christianity assumed and consumed an awful lot of pieces from the native european pagan religions and

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-23 Thread
Raj wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody knows when and how did the number 13 get so unpopular? Whats the story behind it? in the Christian tradition, 13 is unlucky because there were 13 people at the Last Supper. or so I was told by the good nuns when they wren't busy whacking my

Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-22 Thread John Neiberger
This is not a joke, I promise, but it is very strange. Have any of you noticed that by far the most problematic port on the Catalyst 2950 switches is port 13? I'd bet money that at least 20% of the time we have a problem with a device connected to these switches they're connected to port 13. Just

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Always use ports 7 and 14. They're lucky. From: John Neiberger Date: 2003/07/22 Tue PM 04:53:08 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746] This is not a joke, I promise, but it is very strange. Have any of you noticed that by far the most problematic port

Re: Superstitious Switches? [7:72746]

2003-07-22 Thread Chris
John please check and see maybe the joint of the balance is on that port. If you count the VLAN1 and CPU interfaces that makes 26. 26/2=13 if it is a Blind Justice. (see below). I do have this horrible mental image of Blind Justice standing there with a packet stream going into each pan of the