You have any token-ring on your network?  We had broadcast issues from that.  That was in a previous life.  We had an extra switch around so we moved the 3000 to that and it was much happier for some reason.

Howard "not-so-network-savvy-as-others" Hoxsie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Mysterious HP3000 / NSVT hangs


John Burke wrote:

> Others have already given good troubleshooting advice so I will not repeat
> it. I have, however, seen similar symptoms when the network was being
> flooded by a large number of multicasts (which will show up in the
> LINKCONTROL data).

Ghost and Imagecast will do ample multicasts, but the NIC shouldn't be
bothered with unregistered multicasts.  The registered multicasts should
be HP-specific (09-00-09), e.g.:

> (MANAGER.SYS): linkcontrol utcnet
> Linkname: UTCNET    Linktype: 100BT     Linkstate: CONNECTED
> Physical Path:              10/4/8
> Current Station Address:    08-00-09-DB-51-7C
> Default Station Address:    08-00-09-DB-51-7C
> Current Multicast Addresses:
>  09-00-09-00-00-01

Jeff

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