home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.protocols.nfs:2311 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5190
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!news
- From: hoffman@tsla.noava.lisc.lockheed.com (John Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS received packets error & Cabletron packet driver
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.011633.18832@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: LISC Noava
- References: <1992Sep6.232311.17688@mcm.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:16:33 GMT
- Lines: 28
-
- John Hoffman
- doug@mcm.com (Doug Dooley) writes:
- : All of our PC's (about 50) running PC-NFS 4.0a with Cabletron
- : E2010 and E2110 NICs using Cabletron's Generic Packet Driver ver.
- : 3.02.25 and Cabletron's PC-NFS Ethernet Interface Driver Ver
- : 1.01.00 consistently produce the PC-NFS error message:
- :
- : NFS243W : Warning: no packets received from the network: check
- : connectors, etc.
- :
- : In addition, a PC-NFS "netstat -i" says Ipkts=0, but a plain
- : "netstat" says TCP & UDP packets have been received. Most else
- : of PC-NFS seems to work OK, but we are concerned we may be
- : missing something important.
- :
- : We see this on all our PC's (386s & 486s, various makes) with
- : the above configuration, but don't see it with 3COM
- : cards/drivers, or if we use Cabletron's NDIS driver interface.
- :
- : Has anyone else see this problem? Is this a PC-NFS problem or a
- : defective Cabletron driver? There was a posting from another
- : site about this problem a month or so ago, but I didn't see any
- : response.
- : --
- : ===========================================================================
- : Douglas Dooley
- : Mellon Capital Management
- : Email: doug@mcm.com Phone: 415-546-6056
-