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...these OS/2 machines were once interconnected by a networking technology called 'token ring'.. no joke. It was basically an entire network where if one singl
by blantonl 3y ago
...these OS/2 machines were once interconnected by a networking technology called 'token ring'.. no joke. It was basically an entire network where if one single node on the network misbehaved it would bring down the entire network - they didn't self recover either! you had to reboot them all. I remember once when I misconfigured a token ring card on a PC and it brought down the mainframe! It shut down the bank for 30 minutes"
- actionfromafar 3y agoTo be fair, in those days you could sink Ethernet (broadcast hubs, no switches!) with a faulty or malicious PC spamming the network, too. Didn’t have to reboot the others, though.
- arbitrage 3y ago> in those days you could sink Ethernet with a faulty PC That is still possible in the modern era.
- 13of40 3y agoI used to work in a place where every office on the floor was connected to the same ethernet hub. We also tested a server product that became a DHCP server if you checked the wrong box, so periodically everything would stop working until the team lead came out of his den and went to yell at the new guy.
- Doxin 3y agostep one: disable spanning tree, because the LAN is so big it takes half an hour for a port to come up after plugging something in step two: plug a very cheap switch into the network step three: have someone move their desk around, and plug a spare cable into the switch at both ends step four: spend a day doing a binary search by unplugging banks of switches to figure out where the heck all these packets are coming from.
- tannhaeuser 3y agoWhat do you mean hubs? Back in the day we manually pierced thick Ethernet coax to get access; of course you could ruin the whole segment running tens or hundreds of meters if you didn't take care.