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From: dirish@esunix.UUCP (Dudly Irish)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Errors on a LAN
Message-ID: <1052@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 23:51:16 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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We have a large LAN at our site partitioned into 9 LANs by DEC bridges.
Each of the buildings has both thick wire and thin wire segments.  We
also have a large number of vendors with (at last count) 23 odd protocals.
We also have a LAN traffic Monitor from DEC and it is in reference to this
that I post.

This monitor will show us the number of CRC an oversize packets it sees on
whatever section of the network it is connected to.  And we see on the
order of %0.005 packets have one of these errors.  Now this amounts to a
very small number of packets in relation to traffic, but I can't help but
wonder if these really should be zero.

So would the people out there will similar sized networks please post your
experiences?

Dudley Irish
Evans & Sutherland