On Sat, 11 May 2002, Michael Thompson wrote:

> It is also interesting to note that when the VAX says that the transmit
> logic has died it stops what is was doing for about 30 seconds and then
> picks up where it left off. During this time the VAX will respond to a ping.
> 
> If the transmit logic has died how canit respond to a ping?

Huh? It don't respond to pings. Not for me anyhow.
But it don't stop for 30 seconds either. It stopd for a number of seconds,
but nowhere near 30.
Are you sure that it isn't just NFS which retransmits at a lower interval?

	Johnny

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