This i/f feeds a hp 4200, 8000 intranet (80+pcs, printers), then a 2m/2m Cisco to 5 external branches..

:linkcontrol @,a
Linkname: DTSLINK   Linktype: PCI 100BT        Linkstate: CONNECTED
Physical Path:              0/5/0/0
Current Station Address:    00-30-6E-0C-34-16
Default Station Address:    00-30-6E-0C-34-16
Current Multicast Addresses:
 09-00-09-00-00-01  09-00-09-00-00-03  09-00-09-00-00-04 09-00-09-00-00-06

Transmit bytes            75569572781    Receive bytes           33644251884
Transmits                   282771772    Receives unicast          188508593
Transmits no error          282771772    Receives broadcast        102123369
Transmits dropped                   0    Receives multicast           255376
Transmits deferred                  0    Receives no error         289220650
Transmits 1 retry                   0    Recv CRC error                 1497
Transmits >1 retry                  0    Recv Maxsize error                0
Trans 16 collisions                 0    Recv dropped: addr          1666688
Trans late collision                0    Recv dropped: buffer              0
Trans underruns                     0    Recv dropped: descr               0
Carrier losses                      0    Recv dropped: other            1497
Trans jabber timeout                0    Recv watchdg timeout              0
Link disconnects                    0    Recv collisions                   0
Link speed                        100    Recv overruns                     0
Link duplex                      Full    Link auto sensed                 No
Link mode            100Base-TX Addon    Secs since clear           28583148
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:07 AM
To: John Pitman
Subject: Re: network oddity again...

John,

can you issue a

LINKCONTROL @,a and post the result?

-Craig



--- On Mon, 7/21/08, John Pitman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: John Pitman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: network oddity again...
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:42 PM
> N series, MPE 7.5 , 100BT card. Remote offices served by an
> MPLS connection , dedicated line. Each office has its
> gateway connected to a switch, then around the office to
> pcs running reflections, couple of printers.
> Checking QOS from central shows each office gets an average
> of 1 event of latency>1000ms per day, sometimes in
> working hours, sometimes not.
>
> Users email connects them to MS EXCh 2007 in central
> office, logged on to domain.
>
> In one office only, a couple of users, each with multiple
> reflection sessions open, have the currently working
> Reflection session drop off, and Outlook comes up with a
> logon prompt, indicating it lost connection to its server.
> The other reflection sessions don't drop. At most 3
> users out of 10 have reported the problem.
>
> I am struggling to find a way to nail down the cause.
> checking console for msgs around the time, have seen JINETD
> report 'could not initialize data in path with TCP'
> a couple of times, but not always, so this could be a
> symptom of connectivity loss, and not a cause. The dropped
> sessions show up with netipc error 42, which makes sense -
> its what you get if you just kill reflections without
> logging off.
>
> nettool res doesn't show any tables busted.  I doubt
> it's a failure of data link into the office, as this
> should drop all connections to everybody, so my suspicion
> is that's it something flaky in the internal network.
>
> Anybody seen anything like this please, or have any ideas
> where to look?
> thanks,
> John
>
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