rpa@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.Almeida) (12/28/89)
We have a Sun 3/160 machine with two IE ethernet interfaces acting as an IP gateway between 2 subnets. The gateway seemed to be going 'deaf' for a while, so I wrote a program that displayed the stats kept by the ie ethernet driver. (see /usr/include/sunif/if_ievar.h) On the interface that seemed to be deaf the field 'es_dogreset' is slowly incremented. It is 0 for all the other IE interfaces in all the other Suns that are on the network. The header file comments es_dogreset as "iedog resets" Does anyone know what this means ? Is it caused by a hardware problem or is it normal behaviour for a second ethernet interface ? I don't read this newsgroup, so an email reply would be appreciated.