[WinMac] Re: network hangs

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:42:52 -0500

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>Hello, everyone. We have a small network with one Compaq Proliant Pentium
>Pro (160 meg RAM) running NT Server 4.0 SP3 with a Compaq NIC and two 3Com
>Super Stack II hubs (a 12 and a 24 port). Client machines are mostly Macs
>(running 8.1 with AppleShare 3.8) and some Windows clients (running Windows
>95) and two printers, HP 4MV and Tektronix Phaser 380. From time to time
>(ranging from twice a day to once every few days) the network hangs. No
>Ethernet traffic moves at all--no internet connection, no printing, etc.
>None of the computers including the server misbehaves in any way when this
>happens. Unplugging the hubs from AC power (they don't have an on/of
>switch) always fixes it. Do I blame the hubs themselves or is something
>else at fault? I have found no correlation between any event and t

Do you have a "snifer" utility"? Or something that will test your network
traffic maybe (like Etherpeek?) it could be the network bogging down.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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