On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Michael DeMan wrote:
The flash was corrupted to the point where the card wouldn't boot - we have had to do a tftp download to restore the flash twice now. Basically it boots up through the ROM, but when it gets to 'autoloading flash' it fails. After the first failure it ran for about 24 hours, and then started rebooting by itself again - the reboots again resulting in problems with the flash - CRC checks on it. I was able to recover the system quickly the second time (1/2 hour) but obviously this isn't the solution. We've never had this happen before, and have been running the 4.1.59 code for over a month so I don't think it's a problem with that.
We had also thought that maybe it was the new 'telnet' hack being exploited, but I have telnet shut off completely as of yesterday and am coming into the unit via the serial port.
I seem to recall some postings somewhere a long time ago (6 mos?) about a similar problem with the flash getting corrupted but can't find them in any archives.
We had similar problems on a ARC... it just 'forgot' its entire flash and kept rebooting. Re-uploaded 4.1.59 to it, worked fine for a few months, then it happened again. Only this time, we never could revive it.. tried tftp, AT{Z}, AT{FZ}, never would stay there, it kept rebooting. I RMA'd the card, whenever I got it back, repair notes said "Performed ECO 16570, updated code to 4.2.29". Since then it has worked fine without problems. (/me crosses fingers) I'm curious, what is "ECO 16570" ? Sounds like either a diagnostics test or flash wipe. FWIW, 4.2.29 seems to work fine for us, I recall seeing a post yesterday about it being very unstable. Handling two DSPs, RIPv2 only, only about 1/4 channels being used. (/me crosses fingers again) --- Bryan Wann bwann@cwis.net CWIS Internet Services http://www.cwis.net - 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.