PowerConnect 6248

[Matthias Saou]

dellpoweredge at semantico.com wrote :

> The switch is working fine. The firmware is 2.1.0.13. It's just the ssh 
> daemon that's died. Health status doesn't say there's any problem though 
> on the admin. Anyone else had a similar problem?

I had similar, yet worse, problems on some 6224 which had their ssh
daemon wide open to the Internet (bad idea in the first place,
yeah...). Even with the latest firmware at the time, it kept happening
regularly and the only solution was to manual powercycle the devices.

Once they were changed to be on a private subnet only, no more
problems. My guess is that some external scans must have been able to
crash the ssh daemon and the admin part of the switch, since the access
through the serial console port stopped working too. The rest (packet
forwarding and routing) was still working...

Matthias

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