Unless some user decides he knows better and has static set his machines ip address. Are all the machines locked down so that the computer users do not have administrator access? I've had this happen when department gets a vendor in to set up a system without contacting IT and the vendor just looks at the ip addressing scheme and "takes" an address that seems to make sense.............make sense until I am up all night trying to figure out where the problem is located. In fact, users with just a little bit of knowledge....just enough to screw things up......can go in and screw things up in the same way. I've always found that assuming that things are how they are supposed to be only lengthens the time needed to troubleshoot the problem......remember, BE the golf ball.
If you've narrowed things down to the point that ....leaving this router down allows the rest of the network to function correctly ......then you are halfway there. Replace that router with anything else that will work......another router....a linux box with the appropriate number of nics and set it up as a router........apply the routes needed. If the network continues to function then you have a screwed up router. If it messes up again then verify its static routes vs. each of the next hops static routes or you may have a loop in one of your switches behind that router. Basically, divide and conquer. Let us know how it turns out......I'm damned curious now! And I want a heads up, in case I ever have the same exact thing happen.......doesn't sound pleasant! <G> Cleve At 08:37 AM 12/6/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Its a simple network. Mostly DHCP. The only static ips are >servers...Novell, PDC, Email, Oracle, Citrix. extra-net. All others DHCP... > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
