From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 22 6:11:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2093B14D28 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 15107 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1999 14:11:35 -0000 Received: from citadel.in.taronga.com (10.0.0.43) by mushi.in.taronga.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 1999 14:11:35 -0000 Received: by citadel.in.taronga.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 57142322FC; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:10:45 -0600 (CST) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price X-Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199912190556.AAA08484@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C60FC.7613CB55@bellatlantic.net> <19991218225758.A23729@futuresouth.com>,<19991218225758.A23729@futuresouth.com> Organization: Cc: Message-Id: <19991222141045.57142322FC@citadel.in.taronga.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:10:45 -0600 (CST) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199912190556.AAA08484@whizzo.transsys.com>, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case >(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. [...] >In a "what the hell" move, I powered up the ethernet Netgear Ethernet switch >with it's preferred 5V power brick -- AND IT WORKS JUST FINE! Well mostly; >I think the chip with the hole was involved in driving the Transmit/Collision >LEDs which don't do anything anymore. But pushing packets through the box >seems to work great; it's still doing the bridge thing of forwarding traffic >to the right port, etc. I've run into really horribly mutilated ICs that kept working. When I was at Berkeley they had a display with a little 555-based oscillator driving an LED in Cory Hall (engineering). The 555 had a pit blown in the epoxy and you could see the silicon at the bottom of the pit. Looked just like a car window that had been plinked by a rock. Still worked just fine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message