[ale] loosing my mind

[Pete Hardie]

I feel for you.

I once had to diagnose a faulty backup (as in spare bandwidth, not data)
network myself.  I scolded the customer's network techs, saying that if a
*software* guy found your fallback network was losing 30% of its messages,
you must be a poor hardware guy....


On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-04-06 02:10 PM  <Tier 1 support person>  - Changed:  Public notes
> (emailed to the user), Incident state, Work notes
>
>  The port doesn't exhibit any signs of degradation. If there is anything
> further we can help you with, just let us know, I will leave this ticket
> open
> Incident state: Work in Progress  was: Assigned
>  --- 170.140.138.106 ping statistics ---
> 857 packets transmitted, 93 received, 89% packet loss, time 856137ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.427/1.823/23.028/2.220 ms
>
>
> As proof of everything working fine, <Tier 1 support person> attached a record of a ping test showing 89% packet loss.
>
>
> I can't bang my head on my desk any more today. I'm going out for alcohol.
>
>
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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