We had MCP's scratching their heads over an up and down network at
our company.  The main symptom I could always detect was a screwy
master browser, with lots of messages in the event log of the PDC
about elections failing etc. An MCP friend of mine finally swapped out
the hub (we were using broadcast, not switched) closest to the PDC
and the trouble all stopped.  I would check over your hardware again.
Tom Turak


-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn M. Shea [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:59 AM

We have two NT servers arranged as PDC and BDC and constantly get errors
regarding the election for a master browser. Server3 (the BDC) keeps
receiving the error that it cannot contact Server2 (the PDC) to complete the
election process. This seems to be creating excess traffic and when the BDC
is connected to the network all network traffic is slowed to a crawl and we
are not able to access the internet (DSL) through the PDC. In running
network monitor there is no other traffic on the BDC. We have done the
registry edit to disable the BDC trying to become a master but it still
causes problems. Has anyone experienced this? Thanks for any help.

Shawn M. Shea
Microsoft Certified Professional
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