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Abend message translation please

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by ewai

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Can anyone make sense of this abend message on Novell4.11 sp6 NDS6:
"CRITICAL - A severe OS error has occured. A trusted RING0 Appl may have corrupted system memory. Netware halted.
Error MSG:SYNACKED out-of-state arrival"
Compaq Insight manager also had this to add:
"Server16: Code executing in module TCPIP.NLM v4.20 at offset +27260h"
Can anyone shed any light on this as I do not want it to happen again! Help much appreciated.

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by kevin anderson

I can't directly address the issue, because there isn't too much info there, but you are several service packs out of Novell's "Minimum Patch List" compliance.

If it only happened once, I wouldn't worry about it. If it happens again, Copy the error from the abend.log file on your SYS volume. I believe it's in the ETC or SYSTEM directory, but if not, just search.

You'll get the fastest and most accurate responses from Novell's Newsgroups. There's a link to them if you nose around at support.novell.com

Kev.

by acurrin

I would install the latest service pack and also check to see the age of the network card drivers. The error could have occurred when either the card driver or the the TCP/IP stack was trying to interpret a bad IP packet.

Also, consider the possibility that you were being hacked (if this server is Internet accessible). Intentionally malformed IP packets could do this to you.

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