Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!rogerk From: rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: TCP/IP loosing packets Message-ID: <8649@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 2 Aug 90 03:18:37 GMT References: <14215@oolong.la.locus.com> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 19 In article <14215@oolong.la.locus.com> osvaldo@apollo.la.locus.com (Osvaldo Gold) writes: > I just brought up a 386 box running SCO Xenix >with TCP/IP installed on an ehernet network with machines mainly running AIX. >I get about a 22% packet loss !!!! The Xenix box already panic'ed twice. > >Does anybody know what is going on??? Its hard to say for sure without many more details. I know of at least one instance where significant packet loss was traced to a hardware incompatibility between the network card and the transceiver. Best get your hardware and software vendors involved. Problems like this can be tough to track down. -- Roger Knopf SCO Consulting Services "The True Believers will...formulate uunet!sco!rogerk or rogerk@sco.com a message that even a monkey could 408-425-7222 (voice) 408-458-4227 (fax) understand." --Jeff Tye