Michael after me:
> > Anyone have a guess at how long the dump is going to take?

The dump appeared to take about 1.5 hours, but the console connection seems
to have lunched so we never got a confirmation that it actually finished.  I
haven't tried loading it yet.

> Based on your description of a network that went on the
> blink, I'd say that you have a multi-processor system and were trying some
> :NETCONTROL command that then hung the network.

Nope.  We started getting various networking related errors such as:

   h:mm/#Jnnn/pp/Could not initialize data in path with TCP

and could not ping the box or establish any new IP connections.  It's not
clear whether existing connections were still working or not.  I had at
least one external indication that they were, but this might just not have
timed out yet.

We now think that the problem was external to the box as the local
networking people were frantically trying to fix a problem with an AS/400
system on the same subnet at the time, and may have done something that
pulled the rug out from under the 3000s network connectivity from which it
could not recover.

G.

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