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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

8549.0. "link available/unavailable with FDDI" by AUBER::DORNANO () Thu Jan 23 1997 03:53

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8549.1Probably bad cable.SMURF::GILLUMKirt GillumFri Jan 24 1997 09:5316
    
    LCT test is "Link Confidence Test"...  As the name may intend to imply,
    the test is responsible for making sure that you have a good connection
    to a concentrator (or upstream/downstream neighbor).  The test is run
    whenever a fault is detected, and if the test fails within the Link Error
    Monitor threshold, the adapter fails the test.
    
    Checkout http://lan.zk3.dec.com/fddi.html for some descriptions of
    managable parameters for FDDI.  
    
    This case sounds like it might be a bad cable, but could be a bad port
    in a concentrator or just a bad concentrator.  
    
    Kirt
    
    
8549.2one more question pleaseAUBER::DORNANOFri Jan 24 1997 11:1312
First, thank you for your helpful answer.

Customer will check this ASAP.

Still he is confused, as the counters don't show too much errors..
He also told me that he had pk0fast=1 to make the bus faster, and that
he were told this could lead device loss...

I guess this is not our problem here, but wanted to let you know.

Pascal
8549.3"pk0" has to do with the SCSI busNETRIX::"[email protected]"Farrell WoodsMon Jan 27 1997 13:135
It has nothing to do with the FDDI hardware or driver.

	-- Farrell

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