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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 13:49, stephenipc wrote:
\n> Hi,
\n>
\n> We put a SG20 in at our co-location site for some of our machines.
\n> This co-location site has a lot of machines (thousands) and the
\n> broadcast traffic has lots of ARP.
\n>
\n> We find that after about 8 hours of running at this site the switch
\n> on the SG20 fails. Lights just stick on and no traffic will pass.
\n>
\n> We unboxed another new SG20 and same problem.
\n>
\n> We have cheap 5-port switches from SMC and LinkSys that have no
\n> problems.
\n>
\n> Wanted to warn others about this so they were on the lookout for
\n> this failure.
\n>
\n> Stephen Gutknecht
\n>