On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:18:07 -0500 "Leclerc, Sebastien" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Rebooted fw2 at 3h02, fw1 kept master state, but had downtime until >> 3h12 Rebooted fw1 at 3h15, got downtime until 4h10, fw1 got master >> state at 3h16, fw2 got backup state at the same time >> > >Inspecting further my logs, I see that smtp services were functioning >between wan and dmz during the downtime period. Our monitoring is >done from the lan, so I suspect the 5300xl is causing the problem... >Any thoughts? > >Thanks > >Sebastien > the issue I had with Procurve switches was related to it's STP implementation. strange things were happening while trying to PXE boot a large number of Linux cluster nodes using gpxe. Swapping out the switch with a different brand solved the problem, and I never revisited it. if you can do a quick test on a different switch, that would at least rule that out as your issue. if not, try disabling STP and retest. -C
