RE: [cobalt-users] Reoccurring Server Outage/Failure

["Charlie Clemmer" <cclemmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:15:42 -0600, Jerry Farquhar wrote
> Sounds like a possible bad port on the Hub/Switch with it being
> intermittent.  On a whim.. you might try telnet/ssh..ing from one of 
> your working servers to the problem server to see if the problem is 
> an internal or external problem at the Co-Lo.. especially if the 
> logs support the box having been up the whole time.  Alternately you 
> could simply ask your Co-Lo to switch the server to a different port 
> or even better to a different port on a different hub/switch to see 
> if that clears up the problem.

Yeah ... I'm thinking either that, or possibly a duplex mismatch issue.

I have a second server at the same Co-Lo, and during these outages, it is not 
able to ping the problem server, so it's definitely something within the Co-
Lo. Now, interestingly enough, this server that keeps working has reported 
ZERO collisions, which would indicate to me that it's running on a full-
duplex link. Since the Cobalt is not hard coded for full-duplex, it would 
have had to autonegotitate that setting. On the problem link, I'm seeing 
about 10% collision rate. Seems odd for some servers to be full duplex and 
others not ... so that might help to further the argument that there's a 
network issue.

Thanks for the input, and I'll keep plodding away at this.

Charlie