> After swapping > DoM, RAM, power supply and even the motherboard it turned out to be a bad > MikroTik RB44 NIC. Granted this is the first time I've ever seen a RB44 > completely halt a MT router from booting, but it happened.
Me too :D Over the last few months, I've had all manner of weird problems with Mikrotik's RB44G NICs. One of them kept locking up a bandwidth shaper - which, unfortunately, was connected at such a point in my network as to kill off a whole bunch of customers until someone drove up to the office and hard-powercycled it. While I replaced RAM, motherboards, and even obscure things like PCI riser cards, I never replaced the NIC, because that's one of those things you just don't expect to go bad. Or at least if it does, it'll just stop working completely and not be weirdly intermittent. A second RB44G had one dud port out of the box. :( I recently replaced that system with one of Dennis Burgess' PowerRouter 1U rackmount devices, which includes seven Intel Pro1000 gigabit network ports. Those ports alone are probably half the price of the unit. It's a bit overkill for my needs, honestly, but it hasn't so much as hiccuped. (In all fairness I've only had it deployed for about a week and a half, but that's already longer than my home-built system with the RB44G NIC was running between total lockups.) David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
