What do your people do when the network goes down?

[Curiosityx]

I found this quite amusing, but from personal experience it's rather far from the truth, in fact it's the complete opposite, the result of which generally is the ominous feeling that im going to have a very long day!

There are however some nifty ideas on how to pass the time.

http://www.cisco.com/web/UK/solutions/smb/video/vid-smb.html?&keycode=171750_1

 

[the_jetsetwilly]

get a shotgun and go hunting for those people

 

[Curiosityx]

get a shotgun and go hunting for those people

You see the industry needs more people like youself...forward thinkers, prepared to act without a moments hesitation.

 

[MivkM]

Fix it

 

[quackers]

LoL. i'm thinking chair races round the office

 

[Sone]

cry, in reality run around getting it fixed

 

[pdw8]

You advoid it in the first place by building in layers of redundancy in your network. Use multilpe providors, physical paths, routing protocols and common sense network design.

 

[bigredshark]

Watch it re-converge in less 150ms...though chair races has a certain appeal.

 

[PistolPete]

You advoid it in the first place by building in layers of redundancy in your network. Use multilpe providors, physical paths, routing protocols and common sense network design.

Dammit - beat me to it!!

 

[Nanobot]

Definitely try and avoid it, or spend an utter amount of time rolling eyeballs when managers gather around a brainstorm flipchart of what happened, what will be done (excludes spending money), how can we prevent it from happening again (excludes spending money or accusations of not spending money) and what to tell the customer of what really didnt cause it to happen.

 

[Curiosityx]

Hmmm things appear to have taken a more serious turn than anticipated...oh well

Watch it re-converge in less 150ms.

Damm you and your finely tuned dynamic routing protocols!

 

[rick827]

Deflect blame onto the Citrix guys usually...

 

[Witor]

Deflect blame onto the Citrix guys usually...

+1, although in our case it's usually the Fibre-optic provider

 

[Chief Wiggum]

Normally everyone comes over and asks what happend to the internet... Or about 100 people come over and try and get involved as obviously we need to answer all of their questions instead of being able to fix the problem....

 

[Ev0]

Call the company that look after the network and give them an earful for ******* it up again

 

[Mr-White]

plug back in the cable ive just tripped over

MW

 

[Sp00n]

Sit back and wait for my boss to fix it seeing as its usually him that breaks it, I might go for a cigarette if I'm feeling adventurous.

 

[dave-lew99]

Not a lot at our office - carry on as normal, the internet isn't integral to what we do. It does make using the MSDN library a pain though - means i have to get up and find the CDs with it on!

The electric on the other hand.... when the electricians want to turn the power off to install a new consumer unit then we're all stood around twiddling our thumbs until it's sorted.

Nothing exciting like chair races though...i must remember to suggest that next time.

 

[Ev0]

Not a lot at our office - carry on as normal, the internet isn't integral to what we do.

The internet might not be, but what about your internal network?

 

[dave-lew99]

The internet might not be, but what about your internal network?

Even then it isn't really - the office has a total staff of 5, 4 software engineers - we work on local copies, version managed by SVN plus a hardware engineer / admin.

The network consists of a Cisco switch, draytek router and one server

Nice and simple.

Although its quickly going to get complicated what with the new filestore, VOIP system and i want to put in a net install system as we often do system builds for clients.