One spooky night, I had the Miss America pageant at Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas.  One of my network users found an unmanaged switch with cables and it was laying out under a skirted banquet table from a meeting that finished earlier that day.  They must have figured that a ghost was playing tricks and thought it was their duty to make sure all the cables were plugged in... little did they know they created a loop and brought down our entire network right during the prime-time television broadcast of the event!  We frantically looked across the network to figure out what was going on.  To our horror and shock, we found the network switch that was pegging out on its CPU utilization and began to search the area.  Low and behold, the Frankenstein's monster under the table was the cause of our woes.  Nothing like real life to teach you hard lessons.  Happy Halloween! 👻🦇🕷🍁 ... View more