> Here's a new one for me. One of our PM's suddenly began
> negotiating all IP addresses at 0.0.0.0 . That address
> would show up on the log host for each connection then
> the user would be disconnected (carrier dropped).
>
> Resetting the PM cleared the problem and it hasn't
> happened again. I only saw PPP connections so I don't
> know if it would happen for SLIP. Also, all the authen-
> tication was via radius. ComOS is 3.1.2 .
Yup, a couple months ago. Happened twice in about 2 weeks. Livingston
techs had no idea why it was happening. Rebooted the Portmaster, problem
went away.
The weird thing was this:
It only happened on certain ports on the Portmaster. When it was in this
state, I dialed in and got a high port number (I think it was like >14 or
so) and got 0.0.0.0. It dropped me off, and I immediately redialed and got
a lower port, and was assigned a good IP address.
I "sort-of" have an open ticket on this. I was supposed to leave it in
this state and call Livingston to have one of their engineers call in and
see it. It hasn't happened in about 2 months, though. BTW, happened on the
same Portmaster both times, and we have 12 Portmasters, so it wasn't some
weird random thing.
Chris Woods Senior System Administrator USAinternet, Inc.
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