Re: Communications Problem - REALLY Strange/Weird...

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, Indianapolis...

This site is on Madison Avenue. Who knows :-)

Sorry to hear about your problems Bob !!

Last night was ANOTHER good one, eh ?

Chuck

Bob Crothers wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> You are in the Indianapolis area correct?  Well, there was power problems in
> the 96th & Michigan area last night.  My electric clock was 3 hours off this
> morning.  Also, our voice T1 is down (don't try calling us right now) and
> fried a disk drive in one of our servers.  So I would take their "no power
> problem" statement with a grain of salt.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:53 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Communications Problem - REALLY Strange/Weird...
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Just had a weird one happen...
>
> We are running a 620 at V4R1 and connecting branches via a Frame Relay
> network with Perle 494e controllers, everything running TCP/IP.
>
> I get a call from one of our bigger branches (which is 20 miles from
> here) that they are down. They have been having power trouble lately so
> I "assumed" it was that a checked QSYSOPR. NO messages... And they said
> they had NOT noticed any power disruption or anything. I had the person
> that called power off their workstation and power it back on - nothing.
> I varied it off and back on and the system issues a message that the
> device is no longer communicating but they STILL have nothing on their
> screen. So I ping the router (Cisco) - NO problem. I ping the
> controller(s) (each twin ax card in the Perle is looked at as a separate
> virtual control unit) and they are BOTH OK...
>
> So I vary each control unit and the associated virtual device off and
> back on and EVERYTHING is fine now...
>
> ANYBODY had ANY IDEA what happened or what else I could have checked ?
>
> TIA !!
>
> Chuck
>
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