Holy shit!!! Why six months??6 MONTHS!
I've calmed down a bit. Expect more rants in the next few months.
Could you ask your switch what it thinks is connected to "???"? That would probably give you a MAC address which you could then ask your server if it has a name reference for that address. It wouldn't tell you the physical location of the mystery machine, of course, but it might give you some idea what you're looking for and if it's remotely accessible.So I'm pretty sure there's a switch somewhere in my network I don't know about, causing problems. I know this because the basic topography of the building goes...
The vast majority of the building is fed off a switch in the server room (the one that died today). In the process of installing the new switch, I started having all kinds of problems, mostly to the tune of nothing being able to ping the router.
In the process of figuring out what cable went where, I noticed that the cable that was supposed to go from the server room to Engineering (blue) never went dead. I unplug it, go back to engineering, there's still activity on the line. I unplug that end, plug it back in in the server room, activity is still there. But still can't ping the routers from any computer with a "red" connection illustrated above.
Now, the blue cables all go into the ceiling. In most places in the building, it's not a drop ceiling, either, it's a solid ceiling. So that makes doing anything in the ceiling a SUPER FUCKING PAIN.
So, not wanting to go looking for whateverthefuck is at "???" in the above map, which could literally be anywhere in the building, including anywhere in any room's ceiling, I decide instead to reactivate a dead ethernet port (designation D-22) next to engineering (by plugging it into the server room switch) and just run a patch cable in there to the routers. I do so, and bada bing, bada boom, internet's back.
I sit there grousing at the blue uplink cable that supposedly connects the server room to engineering for a while, as it CLEARLY has some other device in the middle which is being fucky today, and I have no idea how I'm going to find it. I unplug the blue cable, internet keeps going. I plug it back in, it's still got activity. I unplug D-22, INTERNET KEEPS GOING. WHAT THE FUCK.
I quietly decommission D-22 again, tuck everything back into the rack, and tell the Engineer I'm done fiddling with the network today. So done. 150% done. I can't even.
Only thing I can think of is either there's a switch or some other device in the blue cable as I said, or somewhere else over on the left on those other blue cables, something's bridging blue and red that doesn't want to play nice when it sees too much traffic.
I don't know, I'm just... BLEH. Fuckity fuck fuck BLEH.
That's kind of what I was going after with the netscan utility. If you can pull a MAC address, then you can reference the vendor ID of that MAC address to at least find out if it's connected to the type/brand of router/switch you think it is.
Failing that, doing some tracert-ing might reveal that the mysterious behavior of D22 might be because some people have routing/Internet Sharing enabled, allowing packets to hop around where they otherwise wouldn't go.
--Patrick
Failing that, doing some tracert-ing might reveal that the mysterious behavior of D22 might be because some people have routing/Internet Sharing enabled, allowing packets to hop around where they otherwise wouldn't go.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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It's not a managed switch unfortunately.
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Just remove all the drop ceiling tiles and go spelunking. Right over your boss's coffee.
GasBandit
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It's not a drop ceiling >_< also, unfortunately, my boss's office is in the lower right hand corner, by far the least likely place for the mystery device to be.
GasBandit
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Well, if anybody's going to be climbing around in the ceiling, it ain't gonna be me. I doubt it'd hold me, really. Fortunately the engineer is much skinnier than me - seriously, he's like 130 soaking wet, built like a rail - so he's already said he'll be the one to shimmy into the crawlspace if it comes to that.
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Visa length + keep the kiddos out of daycare for a little longer. Two kids in daycare here is ~2k a month.
Enquiring minds would like to know.
And would like annual passes?
The crazy bus obviously
Who wants to do the FTFY thing on her post? I can't bring myself to do it.
Instead :
I was waiting one sunny day at the curb
Reading, rereading the phamplet's blurb
I got the anal pass
Everyday, new ass!
Commuting to work now will be superb.
I need to see you in my office, sweetie.
GasBandit
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FTFY
HEYOOO!
My SI is an evil jerk. Tonight (even very medicated) its alternating between fiery stabbing that radiates down to my ankle and halfway up my back and this weird ice cold pain eruptions that feel like water is running down the inside of my leg and/or something is rupturing inside.
My husband's drug company is being weird about approving it this year as well. My work has amazing catastrophic drug coverage and they only have to make a super small co-pay but they are sooooooo picky. I called their 1-800 number and the lady on the phone had never heard of the medication, knew nothing about their biologic approvals. At least she was super nice.
My husband's drug company is being weird about approving it this year as well. My work has amazing catastrophic drug coverage and they only have to make a super small co-pay but they are sooooooo picky. I called their 1-800 number and the lady on the phone had never heard of the medication, knew nothing about their biologic approvals. At least she was super nice.
GasBandit
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... where.... where do you keep that?
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Cajungal
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Motherfucker...Our new governor has been in office for...one month? Our previous governor saw a surplus turn into enormous debt, and he decided to hold off on reducing our enormous, now unsustainable scholarship for native LA college students. The budget crisis and the suspension of the scholarship is being blamed on him. I'm not a huge fan of this guy, and I hate to see this scholarship go for now, but has anyone been paying attention to how we got here in the first place? People who hated Jindal before are now waxing nostalgic. gaaaaaah. I know politics suck all over, but I just need to get away from this stupid city for a while.
Suggestion: Don't come to Wisconsin.
INSTEAD, COME TO MINNESOTA! WE HAVE HOTDISH AND BUDGET SURPLUSES DONCHAKNOW!
Gov has threatened to cancel the LSU football season. That's grounds for execution, let alone impeachment.
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The other thing I disliked about this scholarship program was that it encouraged a bunch of people who shouldn't really be in college to go to college.