Novell Server 3.12 dropping connections

[jmarton]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:16:02 +0000, dragonjo8 wrote:

> The system has worked fine for years. I've done a vrepair, however,
> there are no errors. I've checked all the connections and all appear
> fine. The server itself runs just as fast as it always has (i.e. there
> doesn't appear to be any file corruption). Does anyone have any idea why
> the connections are being dropped? Is there some kind of idle
> connection timeout? If so, why is it kicking in now? Please advise.

I don't think a vrepair would do anything as it doesn't sound like
there's disk corruption on the server. If all the clients receive the
error, then either you've got a bad/flaky NIC in the server or a bad hub/
switch. Easiest test would be to plug the server into a different port
in the hub/switch or even try swapping it. If that doesn't resolve the
problem you'll have to look at replacing the server's NIC.



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Joe Marton
Novell Knowledge Partner
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