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

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (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