Packets queued for transmission increasing

  • 3001495
  • 04-May-2006
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment


Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 4
Novell NetWare 6.0 Support Pack 5
Novell NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 7
Novell Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare based)

Situation

Server would stop communicating.
No errors reported to console or logger screens.
error counter in Monitor --> LAN/WAN drivers --> Packets queued for transmission would increase.
Only a server reboot would temporarily resolve the problem.
Would happen randomly.  Could go 3 weeks without an issue.

Resolution

This problem is resolved with the following modules:
ethertsm.nlm dated 03-20-2006 or newer.
msm.nlm dated 03-20-2006 or newer.