Alcatel Unleashed

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. The spikes are not service effecting but they bug me. Thanks for everyones input rekeds, read logs - nothing in swlog except me logging in and out, monitor utilization - nothing strange except the CPU spikes disable debugs - How do I know if debugs are o...

I have been receiving snmp traps about cpu crossing above threshold. I am looking for ideas on where to start looking into this. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Removing the avlan files cleared the low flash error. It feels like there is still more memory being used than there should be. Like there is a hidden file or a memory problem. I am going to take some time later and revisit this but I want to thank you for helping me understand the file structure a ...

Thank you for your reply.

What is fsck?

What about the switch/avlan directory?

I have a switch that keeps displaying a low flash error.
I dont see any dump files. I am not sure what else to look for.

this switch is not in production. Is there a way to clear it out and start from scratch?

Thanks for any help

Mark

Thanks, I will read up on it.

All the IP address are made up to protect the innocent. This is all thery I dont have an actuall configuration file. I could setup a lab if neccessary. We just instituted a new core switch and we are looking for ways to make things more efficient. We have a few subnets example 10.100.0.0/16, 10.101....

I get this message on some of my switches. Then a couple minutes later I get a response that the switch has resumed responding. There is very minimal activity going on at this time. This happens hundreds of times a day. I hear no complaints from users and I see no errors in the log files. I am not s...

Just an update. I knew it would not be my last accident. I touched the heat sink again. It made me think of this post.

Mark

I gave up on FreeBsd for the moment and installed Ubuntu Server. I was able to then install the minicom package and I am up and running. I will go back to FreeBsd once I get more familiar with Linux.

Thanks for the information
Mark