Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:10:45 -0600 (CST) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <19991222141045.57142322FC@citadel.in.taronga.com> 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>
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In article <199912190556.AAA08484@whizzo.transsys.com>, Louis A. Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM> 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
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