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From: castillo@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Brian Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: timeout errors on PS/2 model 50Zs
Keywords: Netware 286
Message-ID: <4991@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 91 01:35:12 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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I've just about finished installing an Advanced Netware 286 version
2.15C network, but for one maddening problem.  Both our PS/2 model 50Z
workstations lose their connections to the server after about 7 minutes
of idle time.  A PS/2 model 60 on the same network doesn't have this
problem.  I've tried switching cables, terminators, I/O addresses on the
Ethernet cards (all Novell NE/2s on interrupt 3) and the network
topology; the result is always the same, the PS/2 60 works fine and both
PS/2 50Zs fail.  I am using XMSNET3 and the latest version of IPX
(recently downloaded off COMPUSERV).

Is there anything special about the model 50Z PC, or is the server just
possessed?


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