[conspire] How to kill a gigabit switch

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 00:46 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Feb. 21st, I wrote:
> 
> > Aha, there's your problem (said the auto mechanic who noticed the engine
> > being missing).  My Netgear GS108 8-port unmanaged ethernet switch for
> > the outside network has, as it often does, tumbled from its shelf onto
> > the floor of my crawl space, except _this_ time, there's about 5 gallons
> > of standing water near the corner, and the Netgear is lying square in
> > said pool, definitively, clinically dead.
> > 
> > Ave, Mr. Switch.  You were a good soldier.
> 
> Update:  It yet lives.
> 
> Tonight, I fetched the switch's power cube from the under-house
> crawlspace.  The my (and possibly others') astonishment, the recently
> submerged, recently extremely soggy and non-functional ethernet switch
> appears to work perfectly.  My thanks to Daniel for working through a
> functionality test on all eight ports.

In hindsight, the single non-functioning LED may be emblematic of an
internal short circuit, underscoring my recommendation that its insides
be sprayed with Radio Shack #64-4315 TV tuner contact cleaner or
equivalent.