From: Dancer Vesperman <dancer@anthill.echidna.id.au>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] OT LAN Problem
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:10:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106316363409272@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-106313817517827@msgid-missing>
Sounds like you might have some lightly toasted hardware that's sending
bogus frames that are crashing your switch firmware.
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 06:07, David Ruggles wrote:
> Sorry for the OT post, but I'm starting to pull my hair out.
>
> We got hit with lighting about a month ago and after fixing all of the
> obvious problems we are left with one nagging problem.
>
> About every week to week and a half, our network shuts down. It's like the
> switch reboots. The first time it happened I was in the computer room and
> saw it happen. The switch went through its POST and then a few minutes later
> it did it again. I replaced the switch. It's done it twice since then, but
> both times it has been late at night and no one has seen it happen. It
> causes the same symptoms as the switch reset, but because no one has seen it
> I can't be sure it is the same problem.
>
> I'm running a mix of TCP/IP and IPX with a Netware server, a couple of 2K
> servers, a few NT 4 servers some OS/2 boxes and mostly Win 2K pro clients.
> Also have the occasional 98 client that hasn't been replaced yet.
>
> If any one has some suggestions I'd be very grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Ruggles
> CCNA MCSE (NT) CNA A+
> Network Engineer Safe Data, Inc.
> (910) 285-7200 david@safedatausa.com
>
>
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2003-09-09 20:07 [LARTC] OT LAN Problem David Ruggles
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