Hello,
We have a PowerConnect 3254 which has served us well for many years. Yesterday, our entire network (we're a small company) was shutdown as the switch appeared to be culprit; everybody appeared to be disconnected from the LAN. Several reboots later and we're back in business.
Today, I see our firmware version is out of date (2.0.0.22) and so I try to update to 2.0.0.65. Mid-way through the download (using the web-console) the display locks-up, like this:
Status: Download In Progress
Bytes transferred: 2303980
The web-console IP can be pinged and it responds, but I cannot access the web console; my browser (F/fox and IE) both show an empty page. Viewing the web-page source code reveals one empty line. Network activity seems to be mostly OK.
However, one of my servers is completely inaccessible, which is the recipient of a port-mirroring configuration monitoring a one E-port and one G-port.
I did check the "health" and no errors are shown although the temperature seemed high (46C - i think).
My next-day warranty expired some 2 years ago, but I think these devices have a limited lifetime warranty.
Currently, as I await an answer, my switch is still routing regular network traffic as I want... but is still preventing access to one of my Servers as well as the admin web-console.
Any help or suggestions would be seriously appreciated. Thank you.