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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:33:29PM -0400, Gene Willacker wrote: > Since we (Housing & Food Services) are in so many buildings, I monitor > several switches across campus to help diagnose connectivity problems. > Has the ability to ping some building switches been disabled from > outside those buildings? They went down (from my point of view) about > 1:00pm today. > > Thanks, Gene > > --- 35.8.89.160 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms > > --- 35.8.78.249 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms > > --- 35.8.90.241 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms > > --- 35.8.236.250 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms > > --- 35.8.81.243 ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms We were advised of security issues with Cisco switches last week, particularly with the 2900 and 3500 series switches. For now, we have disabled all but a very limited network access to these switches. I will be assigning new IP addresses to these switches over the next few weeks, after which you will be able to ping them on their new addresses. Doug -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/