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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Server freezing on Netware LAN
Keywords: NETWARE, Novell, server, crash, freeze
Message-ID: <1317@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 20:23:25 GMT
References: <113@cs.columbia.edu>
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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In article <113@cs.columbia.edu>, benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly) writes:
> I have been having problems with a Novell Netware server freezing intermittently.  I have not yet been able to discern a pattern -- there don't seem to be any
> large print jobs, nor large data transfers going on.  The server is an AST
> Premium 286, running Advanced Netware 286 v2.0a.  The only thing that I can
> do is to re-boot the server.

I had the same problem on two other machines... the problem appears to be a
bug in 2.0a when using certain ethernet cards...
Both servers that had this problem were using 3COM Etherlink Plus cards
(3c505 I beleive) and when we replaced it with a standard Etherlink (3c501)
card the problem disappeared (along with the throughput)... neither Novell
or our dealer would ever acknowledge the problem... but when we upgraded
one of our servers to 2.12 we put the Etherlink Plus card back in AND IT
WORKED... for a non-existant bug they did a good job of fixing it!!!

If your not using 3COM cards I'd be interested in what you were using???

Joe Applegate - japplega@csm9a.colorado.edu