Hi Guys I know this is probably a bit more networky, but I'm really starting to scratch by head over this one.
For some reason a number of my win 2000 severs loose network connections. Investigating with recursive pings I've discovered the when the ping time outs, the ARP cache on the client has assigned the server IP to the default gateway MAC address. Deleting the ARP entry does not guarantee reconnection, but if it does reconnect with the correct MAC address the ping resumes. One of the offending servers I removed into an isolated switch, with just that server and another machine plugged in. I pinged it overnight and it did not fail once. Then, thinking it was the switch, I swapped the switch out (there it only one switch in this setup.) The drop out's have now resumed. The gateway is a Pix 515 firewall, I has just been upgraded to ver 6.12 from ver 5.12. All internal IP's are on the 192.168.0 range. The two servers do have a static mapping through the FW, for a legal constant address (these are not the only servers.) The FW ARP table appears to be correct. I know there seem to be a lot of variables but I'm running out of ideas. Has anybody and Ideas. Thanks Ali Bango.net Network Administrator ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
