Subject: Re: ze0: xmit logic died, resetting...
To: Michael Kukat <port-vax@camaronet.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/15/2000 10:20:09
> Hi !
> 
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > The message in the subject is sometimes uttered by my vax 4000/200,
> > either once and it moves on or every minute and it stops responding. I
> > have a vague idea what it could mean. What can I do about it? Get
> > another ze0? (In fact I have a spare one:-) Or is it not a hardware
> > thing?
> 
> No, just ignore it, it's a bug i think. I found out, this comes more often with
> UDP packets. If i copy a file over the network with NFS, i can be sure to have
> to grab my VT to shut down the machine, because network is impossible,
> especially the ypbind doesn't get any more answer. If i copy the same file via
> ftp, the problem isn't there. Ok, this is not much, but a bit :-)
> 
The SGEC should be a quite good chip, so it's probably not a hardware
problem. I haven't seen any problem with it myself (on 4000/90) but
I should maybe try to kick a little bit harder on a 4000/300 and see if
I can get any errors.

-- Ragge