[c-nsp] 7206VXR w/ Process Memory Parity Error

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
>
> I have a 7204VXR/NPE-300 that crashed three times in the last six
> weeks with a "Software forced crash" (Block overrun, corrupted
> redzone) running 12.2(13)T12.  Have upgraded to 12.2(15)T15 (with TAC
> blessing) and so far so good.  It had been running quite some time
> (though not two years) without problems.  The "remote attack"
> scenario is an interesting alternative theory as this is an edge
> router (fed by DS3).
>

I've seen a lot of funny business with machines as a result of virus
scans.  Every once in a while a new virus comes out that propagates
by probing some soft spot, and you see some unexplained stuff happening
as the infection instance rises, and machines start getting subjected to
hundreds of scans from infected systems. And it's not limited to routers,
either.

Ted