Re: Anonymous cvs access not working in pgFoundry

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am also considering moving plPerlNG to SourceForge. Although I believe
>>> that pgFoundry is a good idea, there just isn't enough bandwidth and
>>> hardware support behind the project to make it usable.
>>
>> bandwidth related, I'm suspecting that alot of the problem is the Linksys
>> switch we threw in when we first setup the servers ... at the time, I
>> didn't know that it was a bad idea :(  If you do a trace to the servers,
>> you'll see a packet loss between 200.46.204.1 and the server itself that
>> just *shouldn't* be there.  Apparently, on an unmanaged switch, if you try
>> and hard code the ethernet on the server to 100baseT/full duplex, the
>> switch, for some *stupid* reason, will downgrade itself to half duplex, so
>> you get a whack of errors ... right now, as a result, we're running
>> half-duplex on the server(s), which, of course, results in high collisions
>> *sigh*  We're ordering in a new managed Dell Procurve switch next week, to
>> get that issue fixed ...
>>
>> As to the hardware support itself ... see my other email ...
>
> Marc, I think you need voodoo dolls on your computers or some exorcism
> ritual.  Come to think of it, the problems mostly started when moving
> the servers to Central America.  Hmmm.   :-)

Oh, what a man of short-lived memory ... do you not recall the fun while
we were at Rackspace? :(

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