Re: Anonymous cvs access not working in pgFoundry

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Marius Andreiana <mandreiana(at)rdslink(dot)ro>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Anonymous cvs access not working in pgFoundry
Date: 2004-06-18 20:35:53
Message-ID: 200406182035.i5IKZrs05860@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> 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. :-)
>
> Oh, what a man of short-lived memory ... do you not recall the fun while
> we were at Rackspace? :(
>

Oh, yea. So your hardware bad luck isn't based on location. :-)

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