We see the same problem as Antonio on one of our cards. No idea why.
Gilad
-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Querubin [mailto:tony@lava.net]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:22 AM
To: Steve Johnson
Cc: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [USR-TC] Vanishing NMC's
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Steve Johnson wrote:
> We have some monitoring software that checks to see if our gear is
online
> via pings. It seems that the NMC cards on my USR TC chassies disapear to
> pings alot through out the day. So often that we had to remove them from
our
> monitoring software (because it pages us if there is no ping reply).. Has
> anyone else had this problem? Do you know of a fix? This happens across
6
> chassies. So I don't think it is failing hardware.
We've found our NMC cards revert back to the factory default IP address,
netmask, and gateway every several months - nothing else changes however.
Power-cycling the NMC forces it the reload the correct settings from
NVRAM. We're not sure what causes this to happen.
