Re: TCP Problem ?

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you could have a persistant lock on something.  I would make double
sure that all Telnet, FTP, etc. jobs are ended, and that all of the IBM TCP/IP
jobs are ended as well (I'd even manually kill them if necessary).  It's a shot
in the dark, but it may save you an IPL

jte

Graham Chapman wrote:

> Hi..
>
>  I have a 'small' problem with TCP on a model 500 (V3R7) and was wondering
> if anyone else has encountered it. Yesterday one of our Ethernet LANs
> crashed. Actually we traced it back to to AS/400 and found that the
> *ETHLIND had varied off and could not be restarted. I re-IPLed the IOP
> which brought it back alive but everytime I tried to start TCP over this
> line, it varied off again. The line has sinced assumed a FAILED state and
> the messages in the joblog suggest an internal system failure.
> I also tried ending and restarting TCP but the ENDTCP job has now been
> active for 24 hours!
> It's worth pointing out also that, owing to security requirements, we are
> not allowed an ECS connection to IBM so I cannot send any APAR data
> electronically. Before preparing any APAR on tape I thought it worthwhile
> to ask everyone their valued opinion.
>
> PS. I have also found a WRKPRB entry predating this problem by 2 days for a
> LIC program failure for #F2FEXC. This could be the root of my problem...
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
>
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