[GLLUG] Strange Switch behavior
Dpk
dpk@egr.msu.edu
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:47:45 -0500
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:38:34AM -0600, gholbrook@voyager.net wrote:
I've got a Cisco 5000 series switch at one of my locations, and I
added a Linux bridging firewall to it. I am running bridging
firewalls at two other locations with <HEAVY> loads, and no
problems at all. Well...for some reason at this particular
location, my network went to crap. If I pinged the switch it would
frequently time out. So I took the firewall out of the loop.
Still though, timeouts on pings. As soon as I SHUT THE MACHINE
DOWN instead of simply taking it out of the network loop...the
network returned to normal status.
WTF! The switch didn't report anything strange, and I had it
logging at debug level to my terminal session.
I've heard that switch is a piece of crap anyway... Buy Foundry! :)
Dennis