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We have quite a few Nortel Baystack 450 switches. We are experiencing daily network outages and in the process of diagnosis I noticed that ping response times were slow. Response times pinging from inside the switch is 30-150ms. Pinging the switch's own IP address from inside the switch is 1-20ms. Pinging the switch from the a network server or workstation is 30-50ms. Pinging network devices other than the Nortel switches is 1-4 ms response so I am thinking that either there is a problem with the Nortel switches, or else the onboard ping (from inside the switch to other network devices) is somehow padding the ping response times.
I would appreciate any help with this.
Thanks