+1. Definitely seen that a few times over the years. -- ME2
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Carol Fee <[email protected]> wrote: > It wasn’t necessarily one of the switches. We had a server nic flake > badly enough to put the switch out of kilter which had essentially the same > effect. > > > > *CFee* > > > > *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 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
