Todd, I was able to fix my problem, at least temporarily, by loading the newest NIC drivers for my adapter. Ironically, the new driver date is 8/18/04. It's been stable for a couple of hours now. Before the driver update the NIC would shutdown all traffic every 15 min or so.
I also just bought a new NIC in case this fix proves to be only temporary. The problem is that the HP server I am working with only accepts gigabit NIC. I think those new cards don't like the older switches. -Lukasz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Bierbaum Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] NIC shutdown Lukas, We are currently experiencing the exact same problem. Everything was running fine, we turn the server to live production and within a couple days, the server would suddenly just quit responding to all network requests. You reboot and you could ping the server until it came under the load of everyone sending/receiving. We are running a Dell 2600 with the on-board Intel Pro 1000 NIC. I went to battle with Dell insisting that they replace the mobo only after they had me try everything from flashing the BIOS to using their tested and approved drivers. After the replacement of the mobo, the demon showed backup Monday. Luckily I had ordered a spare PCI-X Intel PRO 1000 MT. We put that in and so far so good. The only thing that I have seen in ANY logs has been a warning about a duplex mis-match. I have a sneaky suspicion it's the Intel gigabit NIC trying to talk to this 10/100 ethernet repeater (for packet sniffing/IDS purposes) and the two don't like each other. If this demon rears it ugly head again, I'm going to plug the server into a HP Procurve 4000M switch and wait and see again. The 4000 and logging and management features that will help me diagnose the problem further. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lukas Kaminski [MDS Internet] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] NIC shutdown I'm in the process of moving IMail v8.05 HF3 from NT4 machine to an HP ProLiant ML330 G3 Server running WIN2K (fully updated). The new machine NIC is HP NC7760 Gigabit Server Adapter. Problem: new machine works flawlessly until IMail services are started. At that point it processes mail for about 10min. and then the NIC stops responding. I found a similar post from Chris Andrews (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg81509.html), but I have not seen a fix for this. I am willing to try a new NIC, but it seems strange that the current one *only stops responding when IMail is running*. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lukasz To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
