[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Causing Cisco 7200 Router to Crash?

[John Fraizer]

Brian Wilkins wrote:

> Hi, 
>    We are having an issue here. It seems that whenever we initialize Asterisk 
> on our network, the router that the Asterisk server is connected to (Cisco 
> 7200) crashes and loses it configuration. This has happended five times and 
> each time we have tested it, it is always when Asterisk starts up. Has anyone 
> else seen this problem? It is very odd because this is a very good router and 
> we had the Asterisk server on an exact same router but different network 
> before and it did not cause a crash. We have gone through two different Cisco 
> 7200 series routers and both exhibited the same problems. Any clues? Thanks -
> 
> 

Could it be that your * server is compromised and is pounding on the 
72xx?  Depending on the version of IOS that you're running, this is 
fairly trivial thing to do.

John