On RouterBoards, the bogus time is in the 1970s. It has been a while since I ran an x86 Mikrotik box.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:25:41 PM Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Odd No what I think he is saying is that the PPPoE sessions might have started before the router synced with a NTP server. Since the sessions started with a bogus time in the past and the clock fixed itself the uptime adds the difference throwing it off significantly. -Ty On Aug 29, 2012 5:11 PM, "Robert Haas" <rob-li...@bpsnetworks.com> wrote: > No, the router never rebooted so the sessions never dropped. > One of those sessions listed with a 496 day uptime is my house and I know > my > session has not been up that long. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com > [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:01 PM > To: Mikrotik discussions > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Odd > > Just a guess... > > Did the pppoe sessions possibly come up BEFORE the Mikrotik device synced > time with an ntp server? > > > On 8/29/2012 3:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > Anyone see this before? > > > > I got an alert that one of our core routers rebooted at 2am this morning, > > but no alarms from any attached devices as being unreachable etc. Got up > and > > logged in and the uptime was 8 minutes or so. > > This afternoon I had a chance to investigate the router more. The router > has > > NOT rebooted - log files lack any indication I would expect to see from a > > router reboot (hundreds of PPPoE session coming back up) and attached > > devices interface statistics show no loss of link. > > > > Looking at the PPPoE active sessions, some of the session are showing up > 496 > > days - which is the actual uptime of the router, which isn't possible > since > > I have the PPPoE session time limit set for 24 hours. > > > > Attached is an image showing the Active PPPoE sessions and the resource > page > > showing the reported uptime. > > > > The router is on X86 hardware running v4.17. > > > > I'm hoping to NOT reboot this router if at all possible, but my gut says > it > > is down hill from this point. > > > > Is my gut telling me correctly to go ahead and reboot the router to clear > > whatever has borked the router (memory leak, memory corruption, phase of > the > > moon) at the first chance I get? > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: 8-29-12.png > > Type: image/png > > Size: 100974 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: > < > http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120829/943ab6f0/ > attachment.png> > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > -- > Randy Cosby | InfoWest, Inc | www.infowest.com > Vice President | 435-674-0165 x 2010 | facebook.com/infowest > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120829/e1abe52c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
