Quite some time ago I had some HP 4000M switches that, after a few months of 
uptime, would suddenly just start dropping ports.  A firmware update eventually 
fixed that issue.


Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107


From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: My whole network went down!

So anyway, we lost all connectivity around noon at our main office. After some 
various checks on the servers, I try to ping some of them from my workstation 
and every so often I get a reply but mostly its timing out. I go to our wire 
closet and shut off the UPS that all our switches are on, bring them back up 
and low and behold everything is working again. Anyone have any idea what one 
of these switches was doing to bring the network to its knees? If it happens 
again I will restart them individually to see which one caused the drama. 
Network was down for 45 minutes, not happy.

James

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