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Typically, don't remote power strips require the network to be operating? Maybe I'm too removed from the routing world to know about all the cool new toys. John Valenti wrote: > A few other tidbits I picked up at the meeting: > > 1. MSU's long distance phone calls are routed over the Internet. The > default path uses Merit, but it can be manually re-routed over an AT&T > connection. (someone at Telecomm re-routed things after an hour of > downtime this morning). > > 2. MSU is developing a remote hot site at Penn State. Currently in an > early stage of development, so there isn't a redundant network path to > it. Potentially the MSU web home page will be duplicated there > (eventually), > > 3. Merit had to send techs from Ann Arbor to Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo > to reboot hardware this morning (they had a good reason for this). They > will be installing remote power management hardware; also trying to get > some local people signed up for access to those fiber rooms. > > -John > > > On August 21, at 12:52 PM August 21, Doug Nelson wrote: > >> For those of you who didn't attend Merit's web conference, here's a >> short update. Merit engineers traced the source of the Merit Network >> problems to the failure of an optical amplifier within the MiLR network, >> following scheduled maintenance by the fiber carrier. This failure >> created a marginal optical fiber path, and accounted for the network >> difficulties seen in the original outages between Thursday and Sunday, >> and again this morning, after a second scheduled fiber maintenance >> window. The fiber path failure was compounded by a software failure >> which repeatedly attempted to bypass the marginal link, and then rapidly >> restore the link to service. This process also caused the errant >> switches to exhaust their memory due to a second software failure, >> leading to additional packet switching and routing failures, cascading >> throughout the Merit Network. >> >> Once the problematic link was disabled, service returned to a somewhat >> stable state, but on limited bandwidth. >> >> As of 12:00 noon today, the Merit network appears to be operating >> normally and at full capacity, but we are awaiting final word from >> the Merit field and operations engineers on what was done and whether >> service is fully restored. >> >> I will pass on additional details once Merit releases them. >> >> Doug