Rewiring

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     Spent most of tonight re-wiring connections from 10-base-T to 100-base-T. 
At this point all of the servers tht move any significant amount of traffic are
connected 100-base-T on an N-way switch. 

     This should eliminate the one remaining point of occasional data
congestion here; particularly Ultra1 which on which the 10-base-T connection
was saturating pretty badly (I saw local ping times exceeding 200ms on occasion
to that box). 

     I hadn't anticipated some of the interuptions that resulted tonight,
particularly with the Ultra1, when I first put the cable together for it, one
end had a flakey connection and so I thought everything was working, walked
away and it stopped, and at this point I had pulled the 10-base-T wiring out so
it was isolated for the amount of time it took me to get a new RJ-45 plug on
the end. 

     But all the heavy stuff that is service impacting is now done and out of
the way.  The shell server, the web/ftp/file server, irc, the client mail
server, the connection to the router, all 100-base-T now.  The servers that
remain 10-base-T at this time, mx1/mx2 which receive mail from the net and do
list expansion (these rarely saturate a 10-base-T connection), chat (the bot
machine), commerce (the SSL web server), Eskinews (news), and our workstations,
and all of these are going to be replaced and the connections will be upgraded
as that is done.