RE: Can someone explain this?

["Don Cavaiani" <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The log was wiped out by the ipl 

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Subject: Re: Can someone explain this?

Is there a message in SYSOPR? One time when we lost power to the switch
it was hooked up to, the i didn't retry connecting.

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Josh Diggs <JDiggs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think a problem with arp tables can adequately explain why 
> telnet worked byt http didn't.  Both telnet and http function above 
> the network layer which relies on the data link layer.  If there was a

> problem with the data link layer it would effect both of these 
> protocols.  Of course if it was an arp table problem on a limited 
> number of hosts and http and telnet connections were not tried from 
> the same host then it could be an arp table issue.
>
> I don't have any good ideas for what the cause would have been but I 
> am curious to know if you find out.
>
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> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: Can someone explain this?
>
> The system maintains an ARP (address resolution protocol) table that 
> tells it how to connect to other servers.  My guess is that the ARP 
> needed to be refreshed.  On a UNIX system that would be command:
>   arp -d
> But I am unsure what command might do the equivalent on i.
>
> "Don Cavaiani" <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Last night we put in all new switches, and quickly replugged the IBM 
> > i Ethernet cable, and the system went on running, telnet for sure.
> >
> > However, the http servers no longer connected.  This morning I 
> > re-started all the HTTP servers, but we were still unable to connect.
> >
> > I then did an IPL which brought everything back up.
> >
> >
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