I'd bet it ran out of memory.. do a "show mem"
> As far as I now, the PM was locked up. So I shut it off - turned it back on -
> and the problem was gone.
It could have also been a 'bigping' attack... filter ICMP Type 8 to the
ethernet port of your PMs...
> My question - what happened? I loaded the PM with the latest OS about two weeks
> ago and it hasn't skipped a beat; until now.
This leads me to believe it ran out of ram... Did you experience higher
load than normal today?
> There is some speculation that a disgruntled competitor attempted to bring
> me down with a flood ping.
as I said above, filter icmp echo request...
> Would this lock up my PM? If so.. how do I prevent it??
Filters and what not on your WAN.. If you can, filter ICMP from your
lusers too...
JS
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