RE: Help!!!!

["Chris Strandt" <strandtc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This event does not apparently occur at specific times (high traffic).  Just
today, after everyone had left, we were checking on one of our Elementary
school servers... just after we had logged in.. and went to "Network
Neighborhood"... we locked up.  We couldn't even do CTRL - ALT - DEL.  It
gets that bad sometimes.  I know its not the clients themselves.  Things
don't happen like this on whole rows of computers all at the same
time...with all the latest patches.  We are virtually not running any apps
from the servers...  although we do have some large Project files being
transferred.

And our Novell servers all over the district keep getting Incomplete
Packets.

We have all of our new labs listed in a database... it helps... but not
enough... we can't pin point all of our errors.... they are like phantoms
sometimes.

You said you knew of a Linux product that will do IPX routing... at the
moment... IPX is a requirement.  Will this be impossible for someone who
knows very little about linux??


Thanks Again,
-Chris Strandt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coder@wmich.edu [mailto:coder@wmich.edu]On Behalf Of Ryan Matteson
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 6:04 PM
> To: klug@klug.armintl.com
> Subject: Re: Help!!!!
>
>
> Chris Strandt wrote:
> >
> > I'm quite new to linux, and I'm between a rock and a hard place at the
> > moment.  I'd like to give a little background to setup what I'm
> try to do
> > here, so please bear with me.
> >
> > I work for Northville Public Schools, in the Educational
> Technology Center.
> >
> > In the last year we have added 90 nodes to our existing 16MB Token Ring
> > Network (all this is at our high school).  We are in the process of
> > upgrading a large part of our network.
> >
> > Problem is about once a day our network freezes... and
> honestly, we can't
> > tell why. We then have to shut down over 120 computers, and reset our 3
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Is this during a heavy traffic time???????????????? I have seen
> some odd things happen when everyone wants to capture that token,
> and the network can come to a crawl. Also how many apps are you
> running from your Novell Server and not local??
>
> > Olicom TokenRing switches.  Even though we basically "reboot" our entire
> > ring, this doesn't always work... Today we had to do this 4
> times (a major
> > pain considering that we are doing finals).
> >
> > We have run LANalyzer (a Novell Diagnostic Software) to try and
> find any bad
> > token ring cards and so one, with no great headway.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Do you have MAC addresses listed somewhere?? Cause when I used to
> use Lanalyzer I saw nothing but MAC address listed. I hope you
> got IP installed and can plug in a laptop and read arp queries.
>
> >
> > The reason I'm posting on a Linux Mailing List... I want to
> setup a Linux
> > Router, and isolate a section of our network (our primary labs).
> >
> > But I have never done this.  I have seen that Linux works great
> w/ Ethernet,
> > but have not seen a whole lot of TokenRing support.... does
> Linux support
> > TokenRing Cards (if so.. any specific ones?)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Most available on the market today check out www.redhat.com and
> check there Hardware compatibiliy list
> 7
> >
> > Secondly... does Linux support IPX RIP routing?  To do this, I
> will have to
> > create a separate Network "Segment" (network address)... right??
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Yes There is a product available and I would never use Linux for
> this devious purpose, although that is my opinion I am an IP guy.
>
> >
> > And also, I'll need to do IP RIP routing.  My problem is this.
> The router
> > will not be routing from a clear cut Subnet to Subnet...it will
> be part of a
> > subnet to another part of a subnet to be exact.  And I'll have multiple
> > subnets on the same network segment (We have multiple internet
> connections
> > using different subnets).
> >
> > I guess what I want to know... is this worth my time... and is it even
> > possible?  Would anyone be willing to help out.. I'm sorry I can't pay
> > anyone to do this at this time.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> All this is feasible and worthwhile depending on the knowledge
> you have of UNIX. If you are strapped for cash then a low budget
> Linux router would make sense. I am not sure that anyone would
> take a headache on like this for free, doesn't your school
> contract out like most others?? There might be a taker though you
> never know.
>
> >
> > Does anyone actually know of a company that specializes in TokenRing??
> >
> > -Chris Strandt
>
> --
>          Microsoft...How many times do you want to reboot today?
>