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<p>I was wondering if anybody else had either seen the below or
noticed it. I didn't have as free space on my public structure as
I thought I should, so I went poking around and found:<br>
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<p><font size="+1" face="monospace">
TOMMYT:<SYSTEM-ERROR> Pages Bytes(Size) Write Date
and Time Writer <br>
<br>
ERROR.SYS.1;P777752 138,495 70909216(36) 11-Jan-2021
14:20:29 OPERATOR </font><br>
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<p>To put this into perspective, we are looking at about a 304 MB
file; it's larger than what could have been held on an RP06 So I
ran SPEAR and pulled down a few of the most recent items, viz:</p>
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<p><font size="+1"><tt>***********************************************</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
DECNET ENTRY</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
LOGGED ON 9-Jan-2021 19:02:18-EST MONITOR UPTIME WAS
113 day(s) 0:50:12</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
DETECTED ON SYSTEM # 3691.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
RECORD SEQUENCE NUMBER: 28063.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
***********************************************</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
DECNET Event type 5.15, Receive failed</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
From node 2.522 (VENTI2), occurred 9-JAN-2021 19:02:08</tt><tt><br>
</tt></font>
<font size="+1"><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
Line NI-0-0</tt><tt><br>
</tt></font>
<font size="+1"><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
Failure reason = Frame too long</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>
Ethernet header = AB 00 00 03 00 00 / AA 00 04 00 FF 0B</tt></font></p>
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<p>There are hundreds of thousands of these, causing ERROR.SYS to
grow by a number of pages every day. I didn't remember how to
turn a DECnet node number into dotted decimal, but I did notice
the follow from the DECnet bridge (SIGUSR1):<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><tt>Host table:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>0: purgatorio 0.0.0.0:0 (Rx: 2963632 (3352330) Tx:
1687334 Fw: 1276298 (Drop rx: 2076032)) Active: 1 Throttle:
598 (203)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>1: legato 108.65.195.50:4711 [Ov: 0, Nov: 1693548,
Lst: 0] (Rx: 1687334 (1693548) Tx: 1276298 Fw: 1687334 (Drop
rx: 6214)) Active: 1 Throttle: 9054(070)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Hash of known destinations:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>aa000400080a -> 0 (2.520)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>aa0004000a0a -> 0 (2.522)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>aa000400ff0b -> 1 (2.1023)</tt></font><br>
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<p>So one of these is coming over that bridge (2.1023). What is <font
size="+1"><tt>AB 00 00 03 00 00</tt></font>? Anybody have any
ideas of what's going on? I haven't looked in the monitor code,
yet. If you are running any 36 bit OS, what are you seeing?<br>
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