On: Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font

[pjc50]

Strangely it wasn't, but one of the devices was an experimental bit of hardware which simply did autonegotiation wrong.

We found this out with an oscilloscope.

[davidgerard → pjc50]

I had to solve this one with a small hub or switch between the Sun and Cisco boxes, so it sounded very familiar. Possibly 10 vs 100 was harder than we thought.