ateindho@sunatb.UUCP (BSO/AT Eindhoven) (03/10/91)
I am having problems in a large but not excessive Ethernet consisting of a variety of cabling systems from twisted pair to optical, and equipment from UB, DEC and BICC. Protocols include TCP/IP and DECnet. VAX based terminal servers with CMC ENP55 Ethernet cards seem to be resetting as queues overflow. The net is not particulary heavily loaded, but when we did a stress test on the network, we noticed a number of 'late collisions'. If everything is OK, late collisions shouldn't happen. I have never seen this happen before, but I have never looked for them. We seem to have about 1 error in 10,000 packets, even if we strip the network to a minimum. 1) Is this a high level, or is it acceptable ? 2) Has anyone had similar experience, especially with this card ? 3) Does anyone have any idea how a card will (in general) react to this (illegal) condition. 4) Any advice as to how I should track down the cause, rather than trying to attack the symptoms. Keith Dixon.