Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Clarkson BYU & WD8003e Problem? Message-ID: Date: 24 Feb 91 05:15:21 GMT References: <30465@usc> <5255@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: toddc@.TV.TEK.COM's message of 22 Feb 91 19:32:19 GMT In article <5255@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> toddc@.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) writes: We are having a problem where several PC's that have WD8003e cards lock-up at random times; they are running the Clarkson BYU Packet driver. These PC's are linked to the fileserver by a T1 line, and there are PC's with the same configuration at the same location as the fileserver that have not had any problems. What an interesting problem you have. [translation: I'm glad it's not mine.] I'll have to cogitate on this one. [translation: I'm nearly clueless.] Since, as you say, identical configurations on the other side of the T1 line don't have problems, I suspect something in the timing of the packets. [translation: rephrase what they said and repeat it back to them.] Perhaps you could temporarily put a file server on the local net? [translation: grasp at a straw, any straw in a storm.] Perhaps you could try a different Ethernet card? [translation: all Ethernet controllers have bugs, perhaps invoking different bugs might help] Are you using the 8.x release? [translation: get them to go away and get the latest version [but seriously, this worked the last two times I tried it]]. -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com