Hal's Guide to Network Troubleshooting

[prillalar]

I've seen so many posts about networking problems on my flist in the last few days. I administer the networks both at work and at home, so I thought I would share my never-fail troubleshooting process.

1. Make sure everything is plugged in.

2. Turn everything off and on again, in varying orders.

3. Human sacrifice.

And that's all you need to know!

Comments

[noshootingstars.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm so impatient I skip straight to number three only to later discover I could have fixed the problem with 1 & 2. Boy, is that embarrassing.

[prillalar]

Yeah, because #3 won't work if your ethernet cable is unplugged.