SUN Ethernet problems

[Russ Poffenberger]

In article <641 at brazos.Rice.edu> cy at attctc.dallas.tx.us (Cyrus Foughty) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 90, message 8 of 9
>
>We have a network of 16 SUNs with two servers (3/280's).  We continually
>get the error message "NFS server not responding", then after a second the
>next  message appears telling us it is now working. Also at certain times
>the network just slows down to the point that scrolling in "vi" takes
>several seconds. I know the descriptions are pretty ethereal, but any
>general tuning tips or ideas would help. BTW, we are running SUNOS 3.5.
>

We got that a lot too until we upgraded to 4.x It seems the timeout is now
longer. I don't know if it can be changed on 3.5 or not.

Russ Poffenberger
Schlumberger Technologies
poffen at sj.ate.slb.com