Hello Amar,

>> If it is due to HSRP conflict, will this cause all siwtches hang(hanged for more then 20 mins and came up after restart) except 4 access switches????

No it is not caused by HSRP, as noted by John your network has a big failure caused by a bridging loop.

The error messages about HSRP conflict are symptoms of the problem not the root cause of the problem

You need to check all switches. Look for ports with spanning-tree bpdufilter enabled or for ports with spanning-tree portfast that have been connected to another switch.

A user may have connected a cable to two different ports with STP portfast and bpdufilter enabled and he/she can have created a loop.

Other possible source of problems are configuration errors on port channels : once a port channel is up all changes to the list of permitted vlans have to be done on the logical interface not on the physical members. We experienced this problem two times and can affect also C6500 devices.

You should look at the log file of each switch and to correlate events, if all devices share an NTP reference clock and you use datetime in log messages (default is uptime and this is not useful)  the one that shows the first messages is likely near to the point where the loop had formed

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Hi

you state the switches HANG

for me that means they stop responding and they are dead in the water. ie no lights no nothing.

if this is the case then you can have a bug that craches the IOS.

I would say its not likely since you have several different units most likely with different ios.

if you have a broadcaststorm you will se lights flash like crazy since what the switch is trying to do is send the same packets as fast as it can to the next part of the loop wich in its turn will send it back.

Or you could just see a missbehaving host that sends shitloads of small small packets to a broadcast that exhausts the switches.

To check where the problem is attach a sniffer and you will see the offending packets and you will know for sure if it is a storm or resource exhaust.

If storm then disconnect the switches from eachother and sooner or later you will break the loop and you will have an "offender" at that switch unit.

if packets to small and killing switches through that then disconnect the offender

16 hours late but it might help someone...

good luck

HTH