Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!CUGSBVM!SYPETER From: SYPETER@CUGSBVM.BITNET (peter bombace) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Re: The silver bullet . . . Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 90 23:00:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 15 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed 10 Jan 90 14:56:41 EST >Now for the problem: During the last few months we have experienced >simultaneous "hits" on the backbone servers which causes >just these machines to go incommunicado on all of the networks to >which they are connected. They aren't crashed; they just aren't >talking or listening anymore. We've had the same (or what looks like the same) problem in a server we use in one of our computer labs. I noticed that the server is using up it's routing buffers before it crashes. I still haven't found the solution, but since the machine that is hanging is an HP Vectra (20mhz 386) the next thing I am going to try is changing the server it a 16mhz 386, figuring maybe the Arcnet cards can't hack 20mhz. I've tried everything else I can think of. I'll let you know what happens. -pb