romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero) (12/02/87)
Anyone else out there running a Novell network and having random crashes frequently? Where I work for money we've got a network of PC and AT clones all running dos 3.2 (I think) hooked together with a Novell network. Fairly frequently (average, once every two hours?) a machine will hang at the beginning of any task ranging from trying to compile something with any of the four compilers we use in-house or trying to invoke MKS' "vi" to simply trying to change drives (e.g. typing "f:" will take the machine down). I've even seen things as simple as cd or pressing return on an empty line (!) crash a machine. Now, since this sometimes happens IMMEDIATELY after booting and logging on, and happens on all of our different (a random Taiwanese PC, an AT&T 6300, AT&T 6310, an AT of extremely dubious pedigree, a genuine IBM PC from the dawn of time and a Sperry IT as the dedicated server) machines, I don't ascribe it to the flakiness of any one machine, or to anyone's weird BIOS (if IBM's doesn't work with it, how can anyone elses?), so what I'm finally asking is, does anyone know what could be behind all these weird crashes? And how can they be prevented in the future, if at all? Anyone out there got any suggestions? Thanks very much. -Antonio Romero romero@psycho.Princeton.EDU
paul@crash.cts.com (Paul Palacios) (12/02/87)
Commonly, such crashes as you describe are caused by one or more of the
following:
1) there's not enough memory on the fileserver for the cache
2) some other person or network tried attaching to your fileserver
with the the same physical node address as someone elses, in your
local network; someone also has your node address.
3) broken or bad cable connection:
at the connector of the cable
internal to the wire
at the connector on the net card
I'm sure there are many other reasons / factors involved. Hope this helps.
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