Res Hall Traffic

Something strange happened on our res-hall network again this morning. At about 7:00am this morning there was a ton of broadcast traffic. Something like 50k or 60k of traffic where we normally see about 5k-10k. Another symptom was that all of the switches in the dorms were seeing really high cpu usage. Especially the slower HP 2524’s that are in Arbor View. Those switches were maxed out and not responding to all pings, telnet was slow, etc. Disabling a wireless access points port solved the problem. Though I wish I knew exactly what was happening there and how it can happen so we can keep it from happening in the future.