Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: ether errors -- vaxen&4.3&suns&sequent&etc Message-ID: <8277@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 8 Feb 88 21:42:49 GMT Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 41 hi .. we've got a strange little problem. we're noticing a fairly high error rate on *some* of our machines and not others. Our equipment is a mixed bag of: 10 or so uVax2000's 7 or 8 uVaxII's (some as servers, 2 as workstations) DEQNA an 11/750 DEUNA 4 sun 3/60's and a 3/280 a 26 processor sequent (ns32000 variety) 5 AT&T 3b2's (SysVr3.1) 2 or 3 AT&T 7300/3b1's 2 IBM PC/RT's All on an ethernet, gatewayed out through an Ungerman Bass NIU box which goes to a channel on an Ungerman Bass broadband system. The Vaxen (except for the 2000's) are running 4.3+NFS from Mt Xinu -- we're one MR behind. the 2000's are running Ultrix, again one version behind. I'm not sure which version the Sun's are running but again I think we're one version "behind". Anyway, the vaxen are seeing the error rates and the Sun's aren't. We happened to be at a DEC presentation today and was talking to a tech guy and described the situation to him. It tickled a memory in his brain about the Sun networking code being "not right" in some way (and he immediately said he wasn't bashing another vendor :-), like it was missing some piece of code that Ultrix of course fully implemented. (Oh, an aside, this guy wasn't your typical DEC salesman that almost know what s/he's talking about ...) I'm curious if this tickles anybody's memory and if they know what he was talking about. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- It takes more than a good memory to have good memories.