Seti helped me figure out a network problem...

[ericlp]

Wife said the Internet was down. I was not too concerned about it.... Got home from work and all the roads are iced up so I figured it was a weather issue....

So I tried google yep it was down.... So I didn't really think of it as I just got done watching that boring mars show on Nova ((seems they took all the parts from discovery channel that I've already seen and tried to make a boring movie out of it) unoriginal bastards). Anyway. I'm thinking what the hell do I call comcrap now or ???? So, I unplugged the cable modem plugged it back in. Seems fine. Started looking around at Seti and noticed it was not getting to Seti Q server, the red upside down dish. Try pinging... Nope... Rebooted the switch and Router and it worked... Of course I would have tried this anyway but I guess I just figured out it was internal faster form seti...

I guess it is good for something even tho I lost about 6 or so hours of crunching...

 

[Confused]

Glad you got to the root of the problem...but nummer about the lost production

That is also why I use SetiDriver with a couple of days worth of WUs cached locally, in case the network goes down! You have SetiDriver, why not use it to it's full


Garry

 

[ICXRa]

Yep I use it too. I usually keep a weeks worth of WU's but this mostly due to the fact that Berkeley used to go down for several days at a time before their network upgrade. Two or three days worth is probably enough.

 

[barbary]

I used to look after about 4 windows machines at a remote site. I had seti loaded on all of them.

I used to use the stats (I think smokeball used to do them) to see if they were running. If my output was down I knew there was something up with one of the machines.

SETI@home has many uses.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: barbary
I used to look after about 4 windows machines at a remote site. I had seti loaded on all of them.

I used to use the stats (I think smokeball used to do them) to see if they were running. If my output was down I knew there was something up with one of the machines.

SETI@home has many uses.

Yep, I can do the same thing here at work. Not only can you tell if they're running, you can even tell if an app has hung and is hogging the CPU and in need of a reboot.

 

[ericlp]

Hmmm I think I got 6 months worth of catched work for mine. I guess my interenet could be down for a really long time!