Also sprach Ken Kirchner
We've had several incidents here in the past few months where our MPIP serving HARC somehow thinks it's about 20 years in the future. Even though the NTP server is set, it manages to get the wrong date and time and keep it for hours. Only after it is manually reset does it seem to function normally. This HARC doesnt differ from our other 13 HARCs by much (2 of the others are MPIP servers as well and do not exhibit this problem, but they do not serve nearly as many other HARCs). We have swapped out the HARC but this has not solved the problem. Has anyone ran into this before?
I've never run into that...but I think I'd be turning off the MPIP server_state on that one. Keeping in mind, of course, that MPIP is rather dependant on having the time synchronized between systems, having an MPIP server with the wrong idea of what time it is can be a very big problem. While that Arc may still go all wiggy as to what time it thinks it is, if its only an MPIP client, at least it'll only be affecting calls that it takes, and not calls that are on other Arcs that are using it as an MPIP server as well. Oh...and I wouldn't worry about the MPIP clients, as long as they have another MPIP server configured, they'll fail-over to it without any significant problems. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.