Re: Slow/Freezes PM2E-20 with BRI

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:51:33 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 alexm@agetech.net wrote:
>
> John G. Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I've seen PM and other machines 'freeze' when their ehternet gets jammed
> > with collisions. Take a look at the netstats on the PM and other machines.
>
> Well how do collisions happen. Here are my stats l;ots of collisions but
> at least no resets
>
> pm1> ver
> Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.2c1
> System uptime is 2 days 12 hours 24 minutes
> pm1>
>
> pm1> sho nets
> Name Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Resets Queue
> ether0 1730511 14 1870991 0 3907 0 0
...
>
> Does it look bad doc, tell me I can take it!!!!

Hmmm. Say RIP. Very good...

It ain't collisions.

Next step is to have a terminal hardwired onto the Pm, login wiht !root and
set console. We need to see wha thte messages on the console are when the
box reboots.

JGT
The doctor is disconnected. :)

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