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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: LANalyzer for NetWare
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.165304.24980@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Keywords: Checksum errors
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Dec22.221543.24162@cirrus.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:53:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.221543.24162@cirrus.com> vineet@cirrus.com (Vineet Dujari) writes:
- >I have a 50MHz 486DX file server with a 32-bit EXOS 235 EISA
- >ethernet card. The server is hooked up to a network with about
- >40 workstations. LANalyzer reports about 60-100 checksum/alignment
- >errors on the file server. Should I care?
-
- Depends on the time period that you're seeing this level of errors. If
- you see this many in a month, it's probably not worth worrying about. This
- many per day indicates a real problem, most likely in network hardware.
-
- > What should I do to fix
- >it? A workstation also reports frequent errors, I am changing the
- >network card in the workstation.
-
- This could very well clear up the source. If you can capture the packets
- that are suffering errors, and find out what the hardware addresses in the
- headers are, they should point you to a specific NIC. A fairly random
- distribution of addresses indicates a cable or repeater problem.
-
-
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- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
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- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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