[Info-vax] PEA0: Errors

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <00a1ea5d$0$31696$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Christoph Gartmann wrote:
>
>>    FCS Rx          : 0                  Drops Tx        : 2,654,260
>>    Alignment Rx    : 0                  Collisions Tx   : 117,101
>>    Runts Rx        : 0                  Late Colln Tx   : 0
>>    Giants Rx       : 0                  Excessive Colln : 0
>>    Total Rx Errors : 0                  Deferred Tx     : 0
>
>
>I asked my friend Mrs Google for help and she told me to look at:
>
>http://www.hp.com/rnd/library/troubleshoot_lan.htm
>
>
>Looks like the "Drops Tx" is really dropped packets (as opposed to loss
>of carrier). And dropped packets are to be expected when you have more
>traffic being sent than a slow link can handle.

This sounds reasonable as there are always a lot of "drops" with all the
10MB devices in the network. The net usually runs at 100MB or 1GB and 10GB in
the backbone.

>Does the spambox misbehave when on the 3COM switch ?

It does, every 36 minutes. We took it down and replaced it with a spare one.
Same configuration, same OS and software release, things are fine again.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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