Month: May 2020

In the final stages of commissioning LC2, I took it upon myself to explore the resilience of our systems by utilizing various networking tricks, with the most destructive being the notorious network broadcast storm. For those unfamiliar with network storms, you can learn more here: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/6270/broadcast-storm Following this experiment, we now mandate that all vendors perform an actual broadcast storm test and document the results. Should a unit fail to remain operational during the storm (i.e., it shuts down or …