[TriLUG]Broadcast Storms

[Jon Carnes]

I like the song...

   The Broadcast Storm Blues

   Somethin' slowing my network,
   Tell me what could it be,
   It ain't my magination'
   C I O’s callin' me.

   Workin' quarter past midnight,
   Restin' my head on wood,
   Gettin' no dinner break and
   Tryin' all that I could

   You see my director done told me,
   that "I got the network's slow blues,
   If I don't get to fixin', 
   then somebody else fills my shoes."

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:23, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> For anybody not familiar with the
> broadcast storm concept, here's
> a good article that gives useful
> into:
> 
> www.networkuptime.com/columns/broadcast/
> 
> One thing they point out, is that as
> Ethernet switching has become more
> commonplace, broadcast storms have
> become more of a problem, since the
> network structure is becoming "flatter"
> (not separated using routers), which
> may answer the point I made in my
> earlier message, about why that
> affected the *entire* campus
> network.
> 
> TTYL,
> 
> Phil