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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:16:30 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "John Rogers" <john.rogers@onstor.com>
Cc: "Bob Miller" <bob.miller@onstor.com>, "Paul Hammer"
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Well in that case perhaps with a little effort we can get someone to
give us a switch.  Narayan, you know any folks in marketing over at
Cisco or Foundry?

a

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:35:19 -0700 "John Rogers"
<john.rogers@onstor.com> wrote:

> I need to ask Narayan for input. 
> 
> Narayan,
> 
> We need to replace the switch that is used for running specsfs, as it
> has recently failed!
> 
> Since this switch is published whenever we publish a number, I am
> asking you for input on what kind of network switch we want to
> associate ourselves with?
> 
> Of course we may need to exercise some amount of reason.
> 
> John
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Bob Miller 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:31 PM
> To: John Rogers; Paul Hammer
> Cc: Jonathan Goldick; Brian Stark; Sandrine Boulanger; Andy Sharp;
> Vikas Saini; Amit Bothra; David Najour
> Subject: RE: Lab Network
> 
> John
> When will you be ready?
> B
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: John Rogers 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 13:24
> To: Bob Miller; Paul Hammer
> Cc: Jonathan Goldick; Brian Stark; Sandrine Boulanger; Andy Sharp;
> Vikas Saini; Amit Bothra; David Najour
> Subject: RE: Lab Network
> 
> 
> I have kept a small budget available for possible network failures
> this year. Elab needs to quantify the damage(pretty much done),
> design a fix, get quotes and generate purchase requests. We are in
> the process of doing these steps now.
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Bob Miller 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:49 PM
> To: Paul Hammer
> Cc: John Rogers; Jonathan Goldick; Brian Stark; Sandrine Boulanger;
> Andy Sharp; Vikas Saini; Amit Bothra; David Najour
> Subject: RE: Lab Network
> 
> Paul
> Just have John bring it to me. Have you heard from him?
> B
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Paul Hammer 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 21:04
> To: Jonathan Goldick; Brian Stark; Sandrine Boulanger; Andy Sharp;
> Vikas Saini; Amit Bothra
> Cc: Bob Miller; John Rogers
> Subject: FW: Lab Network
> 
> 
> Hmmm, the switch has been dying for a couple of weeks now, may explain
> our Cougar corruption issues? Not sure how we prove it or not but it
> is valid suspect.
> 
> Bob, think we may have to replace the switch while I am on vacation.
> We have lost a couple of switches in the lab over the last two
> months; the sustained temperature in the lab is believed to be root
> cause for the switch failures. If the need arises to replace this
> piece of gear while I am out I have asked John to bring it to your
> attention since we no longer have the head room in the capex budget
> just to replace it on the fly.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Richard Hardiman 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:37 PM
> To: Paul Hammer; John Rogers
> Subject: Lab Network
> 
> Hey Guys,
> OK we took a major hit on the 10.3 network in the lab today. 
> Last week John and I saw that one of the Extreme Networks 7i
> (10.3.0.251) switches was experiencing kernel errors.
> Spent majority of the day troubleshooting several network problems
> that all led back to this Extreme switch.
> From what I could see this switch isn't only dropping packets but
> corrupting them as well.
> At this point you can log into the switch for about 10 seconds before
> it just locks up. 
> There are still 29 connections and I'm afraid that if we don't make
> plans to migrate the remaining connections off this switch soon we
> will be forced to when it completely goes out.
> Not too mention the plethora of weird issues that this switch is
> creating, I guess it keeps the testers on their toes though! 
> Have a good evening !
> 
