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From: afb3@hou2d.UUCP (A.BALDWIN)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: ether errors -- vaxen&4.3&suns&sequent&etc
Message-ID: <1870@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 16:57:26 GMT
References: <8277@e.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <8277@e.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
> hi ..
> 
> we've got a strange little problem.  we're noticing a fairly high
> error rate on *some* of our machines and not others.
> 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.  ......
>
>....
>
> -- 
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I remember (when I was able to have a DEC hardware maintenance 
contract:-) that there was a problem with the DEQNA and ULTRIX.
I've never see this problem on our ETHERNET (3 AT&T 3b2's, a MASScomp
5500, a uVAX-II, 2 Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations, 4+ Sun 
workstations, and two Integrated Solutions workstations).  However,
our network is not as large as the one described in the above article.
Also, we were/are running Ultrix 1.1.  Your release should have had the
problem this guy was talking about fixed.

Maybe new problems were interduced.  I'm really interested as we
are about to get an VAXstation 3500 and our ETHERNET is split
between two locations (we will put in a bridge soon).


Al Baldwin
AT&T-Bell Labs
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[These opinions are my own....Who else would want them!!!]