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--- In magnia_sg20@yahoogroups.com, Noel <ar798@t...> wrote:
\n> The lights "sticking on" is normal.
\n>
\n> I have found that the bridge interface (brg0) on the sg20 is buggy.
\n>
\n> I'm guessing that your just pluging a network cable into the
\nswitch and
\n> using that for the sg20's connectivity.
\n>
\n> If thats the case, you need to reconfigure the eth0 to be used as a
\n> normal port and not part of the bridge.
\n>
\n> Noel
\n>
\n> 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
\nmachines.
\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
\nswitch
\n> > on the SG20 fails. Lights just stick on and no traffic will
\npass.
\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> >