3Com (R) Corporation 3Com EtherLink Server CD for the 3C980B Fast EtherLink Server NIC Family NetWare Server Driver Installation Notes Netware 4.11 with Service Pack 6 ================================ Service Pack 6 is required for proper operation of the failover mechanism for the 3C980B Server NIC with Netware 4.11. Before you load the 3C980.LAN or EL980LB.NLM, you should copy NEB.NLM and ODINEB.NLM from the \NWSERVER directory on the 3Com EtherLink Server CD into the server SYSTEM directory. Otherwise, failover performance may be adversely affected. If you are running Netware 5.x, you do not need to copy these files. RSL Notes. ========= RSL Runtime messages and troubleshooting. The following messages are displayed to the console and logged to sys$err.log (dependent on message level setting) to indicate RSL events Error notifications. Cable disconnect. Cable disconnect detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Action: Reconnect cable or if connected replace it. This message also appears if either side of the network connection is hard configured to a different link speed. If the cable is not disconnected then check the link configuration settings. Interrupt failure. Interrupt error detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Action: Change NIC slot. Run diagnostic tests. Change interrupt assignment. Note that the driver will attempt to operate in polling mode when this error is detected. Recovery message (not network activity) will indicate working interrupt. DMA failure. DMA error detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Action: Run diagnostics. Change slot/bus. Excessive data errors. Excessive transmit errors detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. The data transfer errors that are monitored include CRC errors,DMA over/underrun errors and Jabber errors. Action: Check configuration of network point of attachment configuration. Modify threshold and sample count. NIC maximum error limit reached. Maximum error count reached on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Action: Check if failure count is too low. Examine nature of failures. NIC Maximum minor error limit reached. Maximum minor error count reached on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Action: Check if failure count is too low. Examine nature of failures. Usually this is due to excessive tx/rx errors occurring frequently. Once this occurs no further failover or attempted recovery due to minor errors will occur. Recovery notifications. Cable reconnect. Cable reconnect detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. Interrupt recovery. Interrupt detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. DMA recovery. DMA detected on {3C980} NIC in slot {Slot Number}. RSL Statistics. The following custom RSL counters are available through the console monitor. Currently active slot Configured primary slot Configured secondary slot Number of successful switches Number of switch failures Number of ping timeouts detected Number of ping frames sent Number of ping frames received Number of detected primary NIC failures Number of detected secondary NIC failures Number of linkbeat errors detected Number of DMA errors detected Number of Interrupt errors detected Number of DMA List errors detected Number of Excessive Tx Errors detected Number of Excessive Rx Errors detected SHD Notes. ========= Use of enhanced level checking: Enhanced level checking should be used in problem diagnosis especially where suspected memory corruption has occurred. It is a more CPU intensive check which may degrade system performance. (%VER \NEWSERVER\README.TXT v1.0f)Download Driver Pack
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