i have no idea if this will be helpful at all, but here goes.
recently i was getting a huge ammount of error messages in both the samba logs and also the dhcp logs. The logs were being created at a rate of around 10 meg a second, i found that the problem wasn’t actually on the server, one of the windows clients i had connected to the server had been removed from the network for hardware repairs, but the network cable that was connected to it was left connected to the switch, a freindly cleaner thought that said cable had been disconnected from the switch and decided that the best way to fix it was to plug both ends into said switch.
this made the server go crazy thinking that the computer that was connected was still there, but was not able to actually get any reply from it, and because all of these resources and traffic was grinding to a halt the entire network, more and more clients were recieveing errors, dropping out and not able to send/recieve any data.
i have also heard of a similar thing happening when a network card has fried and created a feedback loop on itself.
as i said i have no idea as to wether this would help in this situation, but who knows.
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