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From: marsh@umt.UUCP (Paul Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ethernet Problems
Keywords: repost
Message-ID: <793@umt.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 20:56:53 GMT
Organization: University of Montana, Missoula MT
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Sorry for having to repost this.  We lost some news in the process of
switching our primary news feed site.  On 17-Oct I posted a query about
the possibility of too many dmf devices causing the ethernet to hang.
The only symptoms are, that we can configure a V3.1 kernel with 11 (ABLE
Computer) dmf's, and everything works fine.  Once I configure a kernel
with 12, I get 5 "dmfdbint" messages upon reload, and the ethernet is no
longer functional.  DECNET reports the circuit as being up, but now
/etc/dnet_check fails, (where it worked before).  Rlogin also fails, where
it also worked before.  If anyone had any ideas on this, or any information
about the cause of the "dmfdbinit's", could you mail them to me?  Thanks.

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