Subject: Re: Unexpected Disconnects
From: Dick Visser (dick@tienhuis.nl)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 04:44:09 EST
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, brendan bowden wrote:
> The Mac lab I'm in charge of has a really annoying problem... on a seemingly
> random basis, my Macs pop up with a "Server has unexpectedly disconnected"
> message. Happens on both TCP/IP and Appletalk logins, and OSes 8.5-9.0.4.
I've had this problem too. What's in your /va/r/log/messages?
> Server: far from being overloaded - Athlon Tbird 750, 2 3Com PCI NICs, 30gb
> IDE hard drive, 128meg RAM, Slackware7.1 with
> netatalk1.4.99-20001108 (but the supplied +asun2.1.3 and a pre37 compile
> have the same problem). The 3com NICS seem to work great otherwise but I
> tested a few junky RTL8139's and even some ISA NE2000's just to be sure - to
> the same effect.
My problem was due to a broken RTL8139: it send messages like:
Tx Buffer Overflow
to the /v/l/msg. Right after such an overflow all the macs were
disconnected. After replacing the card by a fresh one, that box is up now
for 170 days without a single quirk.
--D.N.M. Visser
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