PM3's crashing

Sun Nov 17 00:54:05 UTC 2002

At 11:50 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone seeing odd crashes on Lucent PM3's tonight?  We have boxes dying all
>over the network with hard lockups.  The machines are in different physical
>locations with different telcos.  It smells alot like a DOS of some sort.

For some odd reason, both of our NYC POPs with different CLECS in different 
locations had the same problem periodically with different random PM3s. We 
now block all SNMP from all addresses except our management networks toward 
our PM3s and they have been fine ever since. You will need to create an 
outbound Ethernet filter from your router or an inbound filter on the PM3 
Ethernet or WAN for this. Just in case the bug would still show with an 
inbound filter, I suggest you filter on a non-PM3 box if possible. We run 
ComOS 3.9.1b1 if it is of any consequence.

gnapsny3> ver
Lucent PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.9.1b1
System uptime is 136 days 8 hours 50 minutes

-Robert

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