[c-nsp] Self rebooting pix?

[Scott Keoseyan]

I have experienced this exact same issue as well.  I was told by my SE  
that it had to do with the way the input was connected to the rest of  
the unit.

Scott

On Jan 25, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Vincent C Jones wrote:

> Another possibility, given that it is a PIX501, is a loose power
> connection. Some of the older PIX 501s were so sensitive it seemed  
> they
> would power cycle if you so much as looked at them. Moving the box, or
> even bumping into the desk they were on, could reboot them. Crazy,
> because otherwise they are solid and will run for years with no  
> issues.
>
> Good luck and good hunting!
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> Vincent C. Jones
> Networking Unlimited, Inc.
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> V.Jones at NetworkingUnlimited.com
>
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:46 -0500, Jason Gurtz wrote:
>>> After each drop this counter returns to 0 which tells me the Pix is
>>> rebooting for some reason.
>> [...]
>>> experienced this.  The software rev is 6.3.
>>
>> We experienced this on a 515E running 6.3 code.  A move to the 7.0  
>> series
>> solved this issue.
>>
>> I can't remember what exactly we saw using console but IIRC was  
>> something
>> like runaway memory use.
>>
>> ~JasonG
>>
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