[ale] 3 days of 3+ hrs Comcast Outages!

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 06/07/2016 02:23 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
>> > and $25 for an Intel PRO/1000 with ZERO driver hassles - they get my
>> > extra $5 every time.  Not all PRO/1000s are the same either. There were
>> > some made in Mexico which would lock up if some specially crafted SIP
>> > traffic was seen
> It's not the location of manufacture, but rather due to there genuinely 
> being many major (and even more minor) variations of the Intel ethernet 
> ASICs over the years.  Notably, the server-targeted PRO/1000 family was 
> quite different (and more expensive) than the client-targeted PRO/1000s.  
> The former supported more PHYs and fancier offload support which took a 
> few revisions to get right..

True.  It was a design issue, NOT a manufacturing problem. Mexico just
happened to be the locate of that specific run.

And the outages begin again today.  Had one earlier today. Comcast
didn´t claim to know about it, so looks like something from the street
to my house.

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9071ms