On Sun, 03 September 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote:

What could bring down such a large cable system in parts and repeatedly for many hours at a time is beyond me: one of my SSH sessions just

In my experience, its usually a combination of operator error and hardware problems. I've accidently killed a network for 8+ hours. Its amazing how a system can appear to be very stable, and then become irrecoverable after an apparently insignificant change.