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From: CLIFF@UCBCMSA.BITNET (Cliff Frost {415} 642-5360)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Op err 8704 hst 0 nt 2 int Pro/0
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Date: 19 Sep 88 22:25:00 GMT
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Hi,
We recently had a partial ring meltdown where one symptom was that
all the ring p4200s were spitting out the following error msg:

        Op err 8704 hst 0 nt 2 int Pro/0

The external symptom was that large data transfers would work in only
one direction across the ring.  Using large ftps, we isolated the
flakey component, which turned out to be a p3280.

Now we're seeing this same error msg on one particular gateway, and
not on any others.  It doesn't appear to be serious yet, but we are
wondering:

1)  What does this error msg mean?  We can't seem to find more than
    generalities in the manuals (maybe we aren't looking in the right
    place...).

2)  What should we replace first?  (The first choice would seem to be
    the p80 interface in the gw, but any advice is welcome.)

3)  Lots of these error msgs seem to correlate well with a high ratio of
    'output refused' to 'output packets' on the p80 interface.  Just from
    simple monitoring of our ring, a ratio of less than .01 seems to be
    'normal' and it has climbed up to .06 - .07 on this one gw.  Does
    anyone have a sense of what these numbers 'should' be?

        Thanks,
                Cliff