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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ -- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
