Day: 11 April 2006

Rangers Vs. Islanders

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My friend rich called me this afternoon and wanted to know if I could goto the Rangers vs. Islanders game at the garden tonight. Not to pass up tickets for hockey I decided to go. The tickets being free was an added bonus. The seats where amazing. They where his companies season tickets. they had 4 seats and only the 2 of us. We sat in the second row of the upper area of the first level if that makes any sense?

The Islanders won, and it was actually a good game. The third period was a nail bitter. I had a great time. I wish I was able to go to games more often.

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Performance Issues Resolved

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After like 4 passes at the configuration of our network (switches, firewall’s, load balancers, etc) Danny found an abonormality that we wanted to correct and see what happened. On our core switch side we had the port where our Pix went set to full duplex 100meg, but on our Pix (configured years earlier than our core) it was set to auto. Turns out the Pix does not auto sense the 100meg full, but does not error out in the situation. You don’t even get lost packets, but you do get some collisions. Well some is an understatement.

Later in the day we set the port on the pix to be full duplex 100meg and within a few hours our metrics back to normal. This little change took us weeks to find. This is not the first time I have been burned by a port mismatch. Knowing that we even took steps to prevent this, or we thought we did.

It is frustrating to find such a little issue that does not show with errors causes so much problems..

Rough Days At Work

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I have had a few rough weeks at work. Hopefully a fix that went into place today will make things better. I know I am getting worn down, and I think others around me are also. We just don’t talk about it. Not much I can really talk about on this blog. I have written more extensively on my Work blog (password protected for my protection).

Because of the extra work, not much else to report on the social front.