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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots ?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:44:46 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199507030859.SAA13156@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 3, 95 06:29:35 pm
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Michael Smith writes:

> > Just like those "fail-safe" circuits, I have a pair of machines which,
> > when I power up one of them, causes the other, adjacent to it and
> > running -current, to panic with a "trap 12: page not present" :-(. 
 
> At the instant that you power it up, or during the boot process?

During the boot process shortly after the network card is initialised,
although I'm not sure precisely when as they share one display.
 
> tcpdump on a third system would help if you suspect network interference.

On a busy ethernet, that's going to be difficult :-(

	michael