Perhaps folks on this list can point me to a similar list for routers if
this is too far OT.

I have a Cisco 2600 interfacing to my ISP (supplied by the ISP) and it did
something today which has never happened before.  At a point in time,
traffic
from the www to *one* of our servers stopped dead.  We could still access
this server
from our local subnet.  And www users could still access other servers on
adjacent IP
addresses just fine.  And we could access the outside www using a browser on
the
impacted server.

After troubleshooting everything we could, we finally powered off our router
and
cycled it on again. Then traffic to the "problem IP address" started flowing
again!

We haven't rebooted our router since it was installed a year + ago, so this
is a bit
spooky.

I perhaps should mention that the server in question was really a MS Load
Balanced
array.  There is a PIX 520 between the router and server, and the PIX
performs the required
ARP (if you don't ARP, user's outside the local subnet won't be able to
access the
WLBS array).

The nature of the problem made me suspect that the ARP was somehow
compromised. But rebooting
the PIX (before rebooting the router) didn't fix the problem.  The problem
seemed to trace
pretty unequivocally to the router.

The "ver" information from the router says:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-I-M), Version 12.1(2), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 09-May-00 23:34 by linda
Image text-base: 0x80008088, data-base: 0x807D2544

Has anyone experienced a similar situation?

TIA

Harry



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