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Auto Frame type Problems

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by mkabus

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On my network the past couple of days the windows 2000 clients that connect to our Novell 3.12 servers have been loosing connection. The fix has been going into the frame type and changing it from Auto to 802.3. We never had this problem before it has always been auto. Nothing on the network has changed to my knowledge and the NT40 users machines are not having any problems. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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by ann777

You should have had these workstations all set to 802.3... it speeds up frame processing. If you have added workstations to the domain, it might necessitate the change... any kind of additional processing on the Novell servers might put additional stress on it and the manual setting aids processing/connectivity.

See MS Knowledgebase articles Q143142, Q166963, Q180542, and Q193033.

by E.Eliveld

Hi,

If I'm correct the auto frametype detection in Windows sets the frametype to the FIRST it detects. Did you reboot your server recently and where some clients/ novell servers still running?

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