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тАО03-15-2004 05:17 AM
тАО03-15-2004 05:17 AM
Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
We've disconnected the switch from the T1 line, shut off every computer attached to it, and disconnected it from the router and every other switch and it STILL shows tons of activity.
We did some packet sniffing and it said that these were ARP and Spanning Tree packets. Only one problem, we don't have Spanning Tree enabled on the switch.
I've tried updating the firmware to fix the problem, but I can't seem to fix this.
any suggestions?
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тАО03-15-2004 06:51 AM
тАО03-15-2004 06:51 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
2) is it possible to restore the factory settings, to see if you have the same issue.
3) check the firmware revision, it may well be worth upgrading.
Hope this helps
Martin.
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тАО03-15-2004 07:32 AM
тАО03-15-2004 07:32 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
it's currently running 09_19, it used to be on 09_09.
I really don't want to try reseting it to factory settings just yet.
This switch provides access for a college computer lab. If the switch goes down, or gets the settings messed up, it may make us have to shut down the lab until we get everything operational again, would reseting it to factory specs be reversible? Could I bakc up the current configuration somehow?
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тАО03-15-2004 08:17 AM
тАО03-15-2004 08:17 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
What non-default features (IGMP, meshing, etc.) do you have turned on?
Regards,
Ralph
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тАО03-15-2004 08:42 AM
тАО03-15-2004 08:42 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
I'd have to check to be sure, and I won't be able to do that until tomorrow.
I was looking around the forum, though, and noticed that Ethereal information seems to help. I downloaded it and captured some packets from my network to see what all the activity is.
about 55% of the activity on my netowrk seems to be ARP.
I've attached a screenshot, tell me what you think.
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тАО03-15-2004 10:21 PM
тАО03-15-2004 10:21 PM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
2. What in your network changed in the "past week or so"? Added more clients; people moving around; all stations try to renew their DHCP leases?
3. You may have "the monday-morning syndrome". See http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=486528
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тАО03-17-2004 04:25 AM
тАО03-17-2004 04:25 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
Also, we haven't changed the network here in 2 years.
And this DEFINATLY isn't monday morning syndrome.
This has been going on for about 2 weeks. We almost never shut down our servers or switches here.
I might try changing the MAC age interval, but I don't know if that will even help, I might just have to end up calling in someone from HP.
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тАО03-17-2004 05:07 AM
тАО03-17-2004 05:07 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
before calling HP support, try changing the MAC Age Interval. Watch how your switch behaves next monday morning. There was some thread in this section, 8-9 months ago, in which somebody complained about similar problems in 4000M switches, and increasing this Interval from 5 to 30 minutes alleviated the problem.
I've set it to 30 minutes on my 4000Ms and 4108GLs, so my monday-morning syndrome seems to be due mainly to DHCP.
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тАО03-17-2004 05:18 AM
тАО03-17-2004 05:18 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
ARP broadcasts by clients to find the IPs of the DHCP server, the login server, the e-mail server (many users have put their Outlook client in Startup), file sharing server (our users map 3-4 drives from the file servers at each Windows startup).
Also switches flood frames until they build their forwarding tables.
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тАО03-17-2004 07:27 AM
тАО03-17-2004 07:27 AM
Re: Broadcast storm on ProCurve 4000M?
it seems to me that the majority isn't a bunch of different computers asking for a bunch of different IP to MAC resolution, it's 192.186.1.8 asking who has 192.168.1.2
and it's broadcasting this every .75 seconds, it seems.
I doubt that the MAC age interval has anything to do with that. Although I could be wrong.