[Info-vax] PEA0: Errors

[Richard Brodie]

"Christoph Gartmann" <gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de> wrote in message 
news:goopmg$jbo$1 at news.belwue.de...

> Yes, the switch tells something about excessive collisions and drop rates.

What does "show int n" on the relevant ports look like? And/or
mc lancp show dev/count and show dev/int on the host.

> Meanwhile I think I found the reason: the packet sniffer shows that it is an
> antispam box that produces huge amounts of illegal tcp sequence numbers every
> 37 minutes so that the switch gets overwhelmed

Without looking at the interface configuration, I would guess you have a
misconfiguration that shows up under high load, and the antispam box is only
the secondary cause.