Re: Weird Token Ring Message?

Meyers:

On Tue, 05 March 2002, Meyers QSYSOPR wrote:

> I have just been given the duties of sysopr and have noticed a strange 
>message or two that I would like to run by you folks.  The first message is 
>CPF8B41, and the message text is as follows;
>
> Message . . . . :   Adapter has inserted or left the ring on line TRNLINE.
>
> Any ideas what this message means?

IIRC, it means two things. First, somebody powered up a workstation with a T-R 
adaptor somewhere in the ring -- this is pretty certain. Second, it means that 
your AS/400 is acting as a ring monitor and reporting conditions on the ring -- 
this is much more hazy in memory; I cannot positively recall if this message 
can be suppressed by turning off the monitor function nor can I recall exactly 
where this would be done.

I do recall that years ago we had no good equipment to monitor our T-R and our 
AS/400 did a passable job at keeping us informed of conditions. We could 
_always_ tell when the IBM CE was servicing a PC with 4/16Mbps adaptor and 
powered it up with the wrong configuration.  :-)

Tom Liotta

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
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