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A few years ago, an 8 port Cisco 2960 that was under my management went offline. This switch was in a plastic NEMA box mounted on the outside of a ski lift. Whe
by jaredhallen 2y ago
A few years ago, an 8 port Cisco 2960 that was under my management went offline. This switch was in a plastic NEMA box mounted on the outside of a ski lift. When I went to imvestigate, I found that a small glacier had formed over the NEMA box, and had ripped the door off the box. When I got there, the box was full of ice, which was in the process of melting. The switch was still running, but the ice had ripped the trunk patch cable out - apparently the root cause of the switch going down. I unplugged it and extracted it from the ice, and dumped a not-insignificant quantity of water out from inside the switch. I let it dry out for a couple days, got a new cover for the NEMA box (which I screwed shut this time in addition to the little flip latch) and it's been running fine ever since. Who'da thunk?
- bitwize 2y agoI found an HP Elite 8200 behind a dumpster in the rain once. Brought it home, examined the innards, confirmed there was no rust. Let it dry for a few days while I waited for the hard disk to arrive from Amazon (it was once a corporate box, so its permanent storage had been removed and securely disposed of). Sparked it up, it worked fine. I use it as a repo/build server to this day.