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From: m11472@MWVM.MITRE.ORG (Craig M. DeRose)
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Subject: Forwarding "Spurious interupts 3/260"
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Date: 21 Apr 89 20:38:22 GMT
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From: m11472@mwvm (Craig M. DeRose)
To:  jvc!jonathan@uunet.uu.net (JVC!JONATHAN at UUNET.UU.NET)
Subject: Spurious interupts 3/260

Jonathan,
I have had the same problems with our SUN 3/260.  We swapped out everything
at least once.  ie: CPU, Ethernet chip, cable, transceiver, fanout box.
The SUN techs checked everything and all was fine?  But we still had
"ie0: spurious interrupts".  The solution was the installation of software
patch 3.5.1.  It comes on a 1/4" tape and you can selectivly install different
patches.  I choose to install all.  The interrupts dissapeared no trace.
The problem as it was explained to was that the 3/260 ethernet can't handle
heavy network loads without this patch.
good luck,
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