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:
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