The first time I saw a compaq proliant 1600 with sco 5.0.5 lose it's network connectivity from out of nowhere and only after being rebooted did it resolve, I thought it was hardware issue. After disabling the built in NIC, installing a new 3c905x card, and updating the drivers and compaq agents I assumed it had to be fixed; but the problem persisted. I recommended the server be replaced, and I forgot about it. The other day at one of my new customers I'm seeing the same exact issue. Same model server, same version of sco. I updated the Compaq Management software on the previous box, so I'm trying to determine what could be causing the same issue on the new customer. Hp recommended upgrading the firmware, but I don't think they give a crap since it's out of warranty. Has anyone else seen this on a 1600 server that was running fine for 7 years in both cases and out of nowhere started dropping of the network. When the box is manually shutdown and a continuous ping is running from a client, packets start to come through again right before power down. I guess that proves it's software, but I cannot pinpoint what software. I have removed and upgrade all compaq installs, and when the boxes stops talking I have restarted the interface with the tcp down and up command, and I have issued the stop and start compaq commands to no avail. I can replace this box too, but I'm wondering if this is going to start happening to all the proliant 1600 out there running sco. Any information that might help me solve this would be great. thanks, 95% of all computer techs don't know crap, and 99.5% of computer techs think they know everything.

Maybe it's going to be a good year, I cannot believe I found this post on slashdot, but it looks to be the answer; now I just got to find the patch. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl... 95% of all computer techs don't know crap, and 99.5% of computer techs think they know everything.