WISP Switch wont reboot.

[Matt]

A bit of a weird one, looking for some guidance.

I have a switch, running 1.4.2, that developed an issue where the web config became inaccessible from time to time.

I logged on this afternoon to upgrade the firmware, did so from the web config, and when it was time to reboot the web config disappeared.

So I connected via SSH, upgraded the firmware again, this completed successfully, but when the reboot was called the ssh session remained connected with no further output.

At no point did the switch go down for a reboot at all. It never stopped switching packets or responding to ping.

So I connected via ssh again and called for reload cold. Once again I get a message confirming the reboot, and the session ends.

This switch is geographically distant from me, is there another way for me to reboot this and eventually look at upgrading the firmware without getting someone onsite?

[Julian]

i've seen something like this before, killall ssnmp did the trick in that case.

[sirhc]

AND PLEASE UPGRADE YOUR FIRMWARE

v1.4.2 is extremely old and there are several important fixes as well as security patches.

You should use v1.4.8rc10