Thanks (so far) to:
Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Cliff Krieger <ckrieger_at_latrade.com>
Joe Hatchel <hatchel_at_richmond.infi.net>
Lots of quick replies, and a fairly quick solution.
The machine in question connects to a 10base-T network via an Allied
Telesis repeater, and this was the first thing I suspected last week. I
swapped it with a second repeater from another 3000/300L and there was no
change to the problem. This is when I tried re-installing DU.
However, on receipt of Tom Blinn's mail, saying that the repeaters were
dodgy (I paraphrase!) I did the opposite (just to be sure); I took the
repeater off the dud machine and put it on the working machine, with
the result that the working machine goes network dead. Aha! Now put the
'good' repeater on the dud machine, and this time it does come alive. So
the problem *is* the repeater, not the ethernet card. Cue sigh of
financial relief and many thanks to Tom Blinn!
Now, rather than buy a new repeater, does anyone know if I will get away
with the cheaper option of a 10base2/10base-T transceiver? Both our Alpha
3000/600's use a AUI/10base-T transceivers with no problem, but I'm not
sure why DEC supplied repeaters for the 300's in the first place. Is there a
problem with 10base2 being 'heard' on a 10base-T network?
Finally, to those people who suggested that I fit a second TurboChannel
ethernet card to replace the supposed broken one, unfortunately the
3000/300L has no TurboChannel options :-( (the plain 3000/300 has 2). So
it would have been mainboard or nothing.
Again, many thanks for all your help.
Chris
--
Dr Chris Stoddart * Neutrinos have mass?
Systems Manager, Dept. of Physics, * I didn't even know they were Catholic
The Open University, U.K. * http://physics.open.ac.uk/~cstoddar/
Received on Thu Jan 30 1997 - 17:26:44 NZDT