On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:23 AM, diane wrote:
I have 3 machines networked via a switch. The network has been up and running for a few years with no problems.
Machines: PM6500 running 9.x Yikes! G4 running 9.x FW800 G4 running OS X
The Yikes & FW800 share my desk with a USB switchbox.
The PM6500 is downstairs.
2-3 system updates ago (OS X), I suddenly had a hard time connecting to the FW800 from the other two machines upon a reboot. It would take a few minutes to give me the dialog box to log into the machine, and if I did enter my password it says the connection is broken. When I hit cancel, the machine will "freeze" for 4 minutes and come up with the same box. This will go on for over an hour. Or I can leave the machine alone for an hour or two and it will be fine when I look at it later. I can attach via the network browser just fine though.
I finally got the smart idea to reset all my switches and that seemed to do the trick for awhile, but it's back again. As I need to do some work on one of those machines, it's a little frustrating! :(
This sounds almost like a failing switch, especially since resetting switches fixed the problem initially. Can you ping the FW800 box from the others when this happens?
(A wonderful Classic OS App is the free OTTool from Neon Software which has lots of useful network tools like ping, traceroute, host, etc in it : <http://www.neon.com/resources.html#ot> )
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