Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am also considering moving plPerlNG to SourceForge. Although I believe
> > that pgFoundry is a good idea, there just isn't enough bandwidth and
> > hardware support behind the project to make it usable.
>
> bandwidth related, I'm suspecting that alot of the problem is the Linksys
> switch we threw in when we first setup the servers ... at the time, I
> didn't know that it was a bad idea :( If you do a trace to the servers,
> you'll see a packet loss between 200.46.204.1 and the server itself that
> just *shouldn't* be there. Apparently, on an unmanaged switch, if you try
> and hard code the ethernet on the server to 100baseT/full duplex, the
> switch, for some *stupid* reason, will downgrade itself to half duplex, so
> you get a whack of errors ... right now, as a result, we're running
> half-duplex on the server(s), which, of course, results in high collisions
> *sigh* We're ordering in a new managed Dell Procurve switch next week, to
> get that issue fixed ...
>
> As to the hardware support itself ... see my other email ...
Marc, I think you need voodoo dolls on your computers or some exorcism
ritual. Come to think of it, the problems mostly started when moving
the servers to Central America. Hmmm. :-)
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