Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcrka451!cadnews
From: attfield@bcrka269.bnr.ca (Ed Attfield)
Subject: Re: DN10000 Ethernet Controller
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.185202.13931@bnr.ca>
Originator: attfield@bcrka269
Sender: attfield@bcrka269
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 18:52:02 GMT


  We've tried the prom upgrade with various jumper combinations.
Actually, it came as a complete replacement board - courtesy of our 
apollo 10k rep: Dan Murray.

  The one we got seems to be defective somehow. Perhaps the fixes don't
work in real life?

  It fails repeatably on the following test:

    telnet to the 10k
    /etc/lcnode

  -- it types about 5 lines worth of the lcnode, and hangs the telnet session.

  We took it out, and the board has gone back to the lab for more work.

  We are getting good results with the crowbar patch contained in 10.3.0.6
so that the node rarely gets disconnected from the network (unless it does
the VME bus time-out crash ...)

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* Ed Attfield                                      email: attfield@bnr.ca
* Bell Northern Research                           phone: 613-763-3102