fta0: MAC CRC Error

From: <marty.cruchten_at_paulwurth.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:02:42 +0200

Hi managers,

>From last saturday on, I have some problems with the fddi network. On
saturday,
it started with our 2 servers (2100) (server1 and server2) which are in
a Digital ASE cluster.
One server couldn't see the other one any more. I could't do a ping from
one server
to another. On server1, I still could do a ping to other servers but on
server2, ping
answered with the message:
            ping: sendto: No buffer space available.
I rebooted server2 and everything went fine again.

On Thursday morning, during the backup of server1 to server3 (where the
tape is connected to),
I got the message:
    fta0: MAC CRC Error: DA: ... => SA: ...
where DA represents the hardware address of the FDDI interface of
server1 and SA that of the
FDDI interface of server3.

Today, I received on my 4 Unix servers (at the same time) the SAME
following error message:
    fta0: MAC CRC Error: DA: ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff => SA: 00-60-97-46-b6-5c

I have the impression that something with the network is going wrong.
Until now, we newer had
this error messages.

- Could you give me any hints on this problem how I could detect the
problem source?
- Is there a way to track the HW-address 00-60-97-46-b6-5c because I
don't know to
who this address belongs to?
- Is there anyone who experienced similar problems?
- I suppose it is a HW problem but could this problem also be a SW
problem?

Thanks,

Marty Cruchten
system manager - SAP technical consultant
Paul Wurth S.A.
Luxemburg
marty.cruchten_at_paulwurth.com
Received on Wed Jul 29 1998 - 08:03:59 NZST

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