Had a switch die over the weekend, a c3560, per our normal procedure I pulled the hardware put a very basic config on it(vlans, portchannel, uplink ports, ip of management vlan, con and vty security, snmp, enable secret, and hostname). Then I use solarwinds orion to upload a copy of the old config to bring the switch back to the same state as the one that failed. Its a system that has worked for us 3 or 4 times in the past. But this time when the base config was on the box it couldnt ping across the network...
I have tried clearing the arp cache and the dynamic mac tables, i verified the routing tables and even removed the 10.1.185.128/27 route and re-added it, saw the routing update go across to the other 65k, tried bouncing the edge switch(i cant bounce the 65k's), took down the po between the edge and 65k.
ping 10.1.185.135 source 10.1.185.129 = works
ping 10.1.185.135 source 10.0.0.1 = timeout
ping 10.1.185.135 source 10.0.0.2 = timeout
10.1.185.135 in routing table of both 65k/vss via 'sh ip route 10.1.185.135'
Bear in mind the switch that was there before didn't have any problems getting to the rest of the network. It wasn't until the power failure and subsequent failure of the switch did the need arise to replace it. The replacement switch is taking the same IP and hostname as the switch that died. I really thought clearing the arp would get me out of this.
any help is appreciated.
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