[comp.windows.x] IBM X Station 120's often pause during boot?

todd@Quotron.COM (Todd Booth) (06/11/91)

Does anyone know why our IBM X station 120's often pause during a boot.
They read 10-100 packets (tftp download), then hang for 1-3 seconds
and resume.  This may happen 10 times during a boot.  Sometimes there
is no problem at all.  I suspect the wiring (we're using Synoptics
Lattisenet).

--todd
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todd (booth) 

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dan@watson.ibm.COM (Walt Daniels) (06/12/91)

It also happens occationally on our true Blue token ring running at 16
megabits.  Generally we have very little network contention but I
suppose it could be a spike in the contention.  It could also be the
bootp server doing something it thinks is more important.  I would bet
on this, but I have nothing other than a hunch.