> ...
> We have an alarming number of incidents where part of the FLASH in the
> Portmaster becomes corrupted, usually the `System Messages' area, so that
> every once in a while, a Portmaster will lose its brains, and upon any
> connection to the unit, instead of the usual, comforting
> ...
> Does anyone have any idea what is so different about our network that
> could cause this sort of problem? All our subscribers are doing SLIP/PPP
> ...
As another data point, we've got around 20 IRX's and a few PM30's. My
greatest fear when doing an OS upgrade is that the flash will get
toasted. Livingston routers have, in general, been very reliable, but
the flash seems to be the first thing to break. Fortunately, if the
flash is hosed, I can (so far) always netboot, and since Livingston
will send a replacement before we have to RMA it, I've been rather
happy.
My only real problem are a handful of IRX's in far-awap POPs which I'm
afraid to upgrade.
Is flash, in general, fragile? I've never seen it go bad in our Ciscos,
but we don't have nearly as many of them.
- Tim Chase
manager@alpha.net