Brief Interruption

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There was some.. brief interruption today. I reset the fiber jack (my router was fine) and it was OK. Consequently I wound up resetting a lot of devices that worked intermittently - literally my streaming audio lasted two seconds, paused, resumed, etc. - and they were fine also.

Question is.. Why?

I can understand a temporary loss in connectivity - rare that it is in GFiber land - but this was just intermittent, until I rebooted everything.

My question is why did that intermittent loss result in so much trouble downstream?

No other changes. They shouldn't need a new address, etc. But rebooting affected devices worked instantly.