Well, well well. Guess what else I added to the puzzle just after the MB failure... A brand new Linksys 8 port switch. EZXS88W. I was going to reboot the switch once to see if it had any affect, I will try that again. It's cycle is about a week. Thanks, I will return the switch if that proves to be the problem. Mark S ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas W Shinder To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:23 PM Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic ( a bit) http://www.ISAserver.org Hi Mark, Have you considered the switchs that the ISA firewall and the rest of the network have in common? I never had problems with switches until I recently got a Linksys 8 port 10/100 workgroup switch. Get this: I have ISA firewalls (both 2000 and 2004) that have run for over 6 months, but I've had to "reboot" this dumb switch about once a week (pull out the power plug and plug back in). In fact, my DC had been running for almost a year before our move without a reboot (don't lecture me about patching :-) Of course, that's what I get for violating my principle of "The only way Cisco will ever get any money from me is by prying it from my cold, dead hands". Cisco bought Linksys, which probably explains the problem. Sooner or later I'll go to Fry's and get a Dlink. Tom www.isaserver.org/shinder Tom and Deb Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7 MVP -- ISA Firewalls ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Mark Strangways [mailto:strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:14 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Offtopic ( a bit) http://www.ISAserver.org I am troubled by my internal LAN going down. It seems that every so often I will return to find the LAN down. Both my Laptop and Server NICs are running ok (appears to be), but the communication across the network falls flat on it's face. I am using the exact same NIC's in my Server as before my AMD motherboard smoked one of the main power transistors in the power stage. I have now ( three weeks ago) dug out an old PIII 677 MB and CPU. I am using Windows 2003 std edition, along with IAS2004 (which now that I am accustomed to it, I love it). I have swapped previous known good NICs and had them fail after a period of time. So, any ideas ? I may swap the power supplies as it may have caused the AMD MB to smoke or it was damaged in the failure. You may reply offlist if you wish. Thanks, Mark S ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx