sirhc wrote:It "appears" that for whatever reason the airFIBER radios start sending THOUSANDS of pause frames per second at the switch port connected to the airFIBER. It does not lock up the switch but instead it basically leaves the switch inaccessible from that port and what ever port was sending the data stream to that port as they are now paused indefinitely.
I'm not sure this is conclusive. If an AF causes a pause frame flood, these packets would be consumed by the switch (port) and not be spilled out onto other ports, which is what I had observed. Pause frames are not "switchable".
If I remember correctly, someone reported that the switch unblocked one port when another port was unplugged. In my case, it was the plugging into another port that helped. And all my 4 encounters with this problem did not have an Airfiber anywhere nearby. Well, that may indicate one of two things: (a) I'm talking about something else and only the 8 Mbps/15 Kpps flood is common to both or (b) I saw the same problem, but then it happened between two Netonixes and nothing else - which means that the AF should not be the source of the flood ... it may still be the trigger somehow.