This was on a MV-III+ with the 1.5ZC kernel. I was compiling the kernel on
a NFS mounted filesystem. The message transmit logic died was displayed
three times, the machine paused for about 30 seconds, and it picked up
after that. During this time I could ping the VAX from the NFS server.


At 04:03 PM 5/11/02 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>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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>
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