One possible reason could be that the network is congested at the time of pinging or the device is heavy loaded (too busy to response to ICMP). Are these on static IP or DHCP, any IP conflict issue? Also try with ping -w 5000 option to increase the timeout.
Alex sB Tech Support -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lanham Rattan Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:58 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Another Dead Ethernet port My APPO's are responding to pings, mostly. They will go into periods where they do not respond to a ping then without me doing anything they start responding again. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Wong > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Another Dead Ethernet port > > > Is the dead ethernet port has the IP address set to obtain > automatically or static assigned and how long is the lease? It seems > that the IP stack in the AP dead after sometimes, probably due to IP > address expired, IP conflict (as the previously used IP is taken over > by some other machine). All these caused unresponsive to ping, snmp > but data traffic is still passing through. Pls provide more info on > the device IP address so that we can investigate on this. > > Alex > sB Tech Support > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Mitchell > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 2:09 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Another Dead Ethernet port > > > Hey... I have kind of the same thing here with an AP that I'm trying > to work with here at home... > > Here's the deal... I'm testing a bunch of stuff.. If I'm using my > Lucent card, I can ping the unit all day long with no problem... (from > the firewall and from the laptop w/ the card) > > BUT... as soon as I associate a AirBridge to it... I can't ping it... > I can still pass traffic through it all day long, but I can't ping it > or config it... > > The only way I can get back into it, or make it to where I can ping > it... Unplug the power out of the airBridge, and power cycle the AP... > > Then it works great (as in I can ping it), until I plug the airBridge > back in and it associates to it... but it still passes traffic and > everything just fine... > > While we're on the subject of ethernet ports flaking out... here's > another weird thing.. part of my thread last web I started (subject > "weird problem this week") that I just remembered... > > I couldn't ping the unit, unless I statically set the IP via arp and > power cycled the unit, OR, I got into simpleMonitor and manually typed > in the IP and logged in.. the second I did that, pings started > responding... > > > Anyone else see any total weirdness like this? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [smartBridges] Another Dead Ethernet port > > > My second APPO in two months has become unresponsive to pings. I have > power cycled it a few time and still can't ping. > > It's still online and clients are associated but I can't log into it > with Simple monitor. > > Come on guys, give me a solution! > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in > the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in > the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in > the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
