Information Technology Services

Research Hall 4th Floor Network Outage

Outage category: VoIP phone service, Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Research Hall 4th Floor

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Internet connectivity was lost to the switch in the 4th floor B Telecom Room.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Static IP configuration from one of the end clients caused the switch uplink to flap.

Resolution

The switch connection was restored after we implemented the switch configuration to shut down ports with rouge IP static configurations.

Prevention

Switch was configured to shutdown ports with rouge IP static configurations. Users with static configuration needs, will have to submit a formal request for Reserved DHCP IP.