I couldn't figure out the diagrams at ServerGuy's desk and neither he nor
NewlyMintedNetworkGuy are answering their cellphones.  However, on looking
at the results of the monitoring tool posted on the intranet (which only
shows a 3600 between the outlying folks and the 6509) I see that the entire
5th floor in TJ is down, so I guess they have their hands full with that.  

Could the 6509 itself be bad?

On the intranet thing I also see a bunch of warnings and alerts but I don't
know what most of it means.  Like, there will be an entry "Ellen's
Gateway is warning" and then the next one is "Ellen's Gateway is
up".

The latest two entries are:
9:51
Reset: Percent Utilization of LA-6509-Port 3/1 ù short wave fiber gigabit
ethernet has returned to normal. Current traffic load of this interface is
Received : 210 Kbps Transmitted : 4865 bps  

9:53
Alert: Transmit Percent Utilization of LA-6509-Port 3/1 ù short wave fiber
gigabit ethernet is 4 %. Current traffic load of this interface is Received
: 299 bps Transmitted : 44 Mbps 

???

> From: "Geo." 
> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> news:kub6c0lqrnmqbr0cfim0ech6sdcl4c7q2b{at}4ax.com...
>> I think there is one thing (can't remember exactly, is there such a
>> thing as a 3600?) between my desktop and the big switch.  I'm leaving to
>> work now, will try to see if I can figure out the diagram at ServerGuy's
>> desk after I get in.
> Yes, there is a cisco 3600 series router
>http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/rt/3600/ but imo that's probably not th
> cause unless it has a bad port or something, I think that's possible but
> unlikely. Easy enough to check the uptime and see if it's rebooting or
> something. In fact that might be a good check for the switch as well, have
>network guy check uptime on both devices, if one appears to have rebooted abou
> the time of the drops then you found the problem.
> I'd still suspect the switch, routers are usually very dependable, it's the
>switches that nobody ever pays attention to setup that end up causing problems
> like this. (that's why I hate switches)
> Geo.

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