+1.  Definitely seen that a few times over the years.

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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
>
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