From: "Jim Queen" 
Subject: Re: Need help with networking problem
Date: 1998/08/05
Message-ID: #1/1
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If it's a cable problem, the "packet receive buffers" parameter on the
server
should climb rapidly just before the outage.   Set the maximum packet
receive buffers
to a large value (say 2000).   If the Monitor screen shows the server ever
USING this
amount, then there's some kind of NIC or cable fault.
You have any equipment that can monitor for ring beaconing?

David Craft wrote in message ...
>I am operating a Novell 4.11 network using token ring.  Twice in the last
>two days all users have been disconnected from the network but no message
>has shown up on the server.  Usually if there is a cable out causing a
>network problem, we get a message advising us of this but today, nothing.
>The only way that we have been able to keep working is to down the server
>and bring it back up again and everything is ok.  Any ideas as to what it
>could be? At the moment, our thoughts are leaning towards a problem with
the
>token ring card.
>
>David Craft
>Assistant Systems Administrator
>Warner Bros Movie World
>Gold Coast Australia
>davidc@movieworld.com.au
>
>