Alex, We have our NetApp on a private FDDI ring (DAS) with Auspex, Solaris, and HP systems - the Solaris and HP systems are clients. We are using NFS v3 with our Solaris clients but only udp, not tcp - not seen any of the problems you have described - have you confirmed that your FDDI ring is good (damaged cable, etc)? I would say bad hardware if you know you have good cables, etc....
On 04-Sep-97 Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
Anybody else out ther using FDDI for their NetApp and using Sun's as clients?
We have been seeing some odd behavior at times.
Looking through the logs on the clients, we have "NFS server not responding" errors (for 0 sec duration) across all the clients. Those that beat more heavily on the NetApp (like one box that constitutes 70% of the traffic) has these every few minutes.
We have also had the NetApp stop serving NFS over the FDDI interface. Taking the interface down and bringing it back up has solved the problem. But what is the root of this problem? Bad NIC?
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Alex
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