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With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during the last
sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and acknowledged
by Sun), so don't laugh too hard.
---rob
Leigh Porter <[email protected]> writes:
> Somebody form a certain large network vendor actually blamed problems
> with their kit on cosmic rays causing memory corruption...
>
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> Leigh Porter
>
> Jay Hennigan wrote:
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>> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>
>>> Audie Onibala wrote:
>>>> Yesterday on 04/16/07 between 3:00 - 3:45 PM we had sporadic
>>>> Internet problem. Our ISP's are Sprint and Qwest.
>>>
>>> Around that time there was quite a bit sunspot activity and the moon
>>> had an unusual position too. The NOC contacts of your ISP's probably
>>> may be of more specific help. But make sure to ask them for their
>>> networks SPF (sunspot protection factor). That's an important metric
>>> to qualify their network reliability.
>>
>> Are you sure it was sunspots? My NOC contacts were seeing substantial
>> memory corruption due to cosmic rays.
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>> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [email protected]
>> Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
>> Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
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