On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:48:02AM -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: > Marty wrote: > >Cassiano Leal wrote: > >>People, > >> > >>I have at work a mixed system Debian sarge/etch running a firewall and > >>vpn server on a K6-2. > >> > >>Today, we were experiencing some connectivity problems, and we found > >>out that they were caused by iptables not initiating properly and > >>segfaulting. So, I went into the servers room, to find out that the > >>computer in question was beeping constantly, which led me to believe > >>it was a hardware failure. > > > >If it was the speaker then it could mean the motherboard was resetting > >while still in the BIOS. > > I'm not sure about what you mean by the mobo resetting while still in > the BIOS. This system was still allowing some traffic through it and did > respond to commands sent via SSH, but nothing on the console. > okay, maybe you've got a failing keyboard or kvm that was overflowing some buffer? that would cause lots of beeping and a lack of response at the console but allow many other things to function normally? A
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