Re: Intel Mac Mini: loses internet connection

As your friendly campus neighborhood network guy, I'd advise opening a
trouble ticket to have somebody come by and check out the network
connection: trouble_at_berkeley.edu or 2-8500. Give them the cable id in
question, that speeds things up considerably.

CRC errors are generally an indication that something thrashed a packet,
and something on the network isn't quite right. Combined with your
symptoms, it's possible that you've got a network issue, particularly if
it's shared-10mb. It may also be a misbehaving host or user attached
gear taking the network out of spec (which is why we prohibit that on
shared-10mb).

-J

Pedro Alvarez Jr wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've been in a heap of trouble over the last two days and on and off
> over the last couple of months.
> This Mac Mini will go 'offline' regularly. I notice this when I try
> to control it from home with Remote Desktop. Its running Leopard and
> Filemaker Server Advanced 9. Yesterday it just simply wouldn't
> maintain the connection to the internet. I was trying to download the
> latest OSX update. It would hang and then I knew that the connection
> was lost.
> I've reformatted it a couple of times reinstalling Leopard.
> (Currently its running 10.5.1)
>
> I ran applejack and got this line a while repairing permissions:
>
> Appleyukon2-bad packet received. Length 1438, packet status bits:
> Multicast packet, crc error.
>
> Anyone have a clue as to what might be going on. Is this the fault of
> the ancient network and equipment in this building? Is the computer
> itself in need of repair?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Pete
> --
> Pedro (Pete) Alvarez Jr
> Information Systems
> Student Learning Center
> University of California
> Berkeley, CA 94720 4260
> (510) 642-9130
> fax (510) 643-7879
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Jay Bryon
Senior Network Engineer, U.C. Berkeley/IST/IS/NSO 
jay_at_berkeley.edu
2-5636
"Any idiot can be complex, it takes real genius to be simple"
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