We have several Passport 8600's and are having some interesting problems:
1. Servers connected to the switch will just "disconnect". Sometimes they'll come back, other times they will not work (even if moved to a different port). The ports will light and traffic goes in and out, the arp table is populated, but the device can't talk to other devices. In fact, in one strange case, a device could ping all the odd IP addresses but not even. It happens on different ports and to different server platforms. (no errors in the switch log or hardware log.)
2. We manage the 8600 by placing the last port on the switch in a vlan by itself, create an ip address for the vlan, and then use a static route. On a few occasions, the IP will become unreachable. We've restarted the box, changed IP addresses, and verified the arp table is correct, but the device cannot be ping or be ping'ed. The only fix thus far has been to reset the factory flags to default (blow away the config) and rebuild.
Has anyone experienced similiar problems?
1. Servers connected to the switch will just "disconnect". Sometimes they'll come back, other times they will not work (even if moved to a different port). The ports will light and traffic goes in and out, the arp table is populated, but the device can't talk to other devices. In fact, in one strange case, a device could ping all the odd IP addresses but not even. It happens on different ports and to different server platforms. (no errors in the switch log or hardware log.)
2. We manage the 8600 by placing the last port on the switch in a vlan by itself, create an ip address for the vlan, and then use a static route. On a few occasions, the IP will become unreachable. We've restarted the box, changed IP addresses, and verified the arp table is correct, but the device cannot be ping or be ping'ed. The only fix thus far has been to reset the factory flags to default (blow away the config) and rebuild.
Has anyone experienced similiar problems?
