> 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.
>
When a packet is put onto the output queue, a timer starts that ends
after 5 seconds. If it hasn't got a transmit interrupt in 5 seconds
after it tried to send the packet the logic has probably died, and the
chip is reset.

The 30 second delay is more likely to be because of NFS.

-- Ragge