Strange error in Syslog

[Dario_1]

Hello Everyone:

I got the following error in one of my machines:

hp_dlpi_wput:Received an unrecognized primitive: 1013

I have never seen this error before and I was trying to get information about if but nothing was found. Any ideas???

Thx,

DR

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi DR,

DLPI is Data Link Provider Interface which is basically the link between the network & data link layers. Primitives are functions of this I/F & there are several tpyes - local, connection, connectionless, raw, etc.
The error indicates that something tried to generate either a primitive in error or an unsupported primitive.
I'd suspect a misbehaving network device or system.
If you don't get anymore, then I wouldn't worry about. If you do, you need to engage your network people to help track down the culprit.
The possibility exists that you may have a flaky NIC or may need a patch update, as well.

HTH,
Jeff

[S.K. Chan]

What I know is it's network related. DLPI (data link provider interface) is like a standard used by the interface to the data link layer (OSI model and all that..). I've seen "hp_dlpi_wput" in a networking stack trace before but not sure what it meant. This may not be an error, maybe it's just informational. Search for patches (ex: lan cumulative) and you may be able to find out if it's something you need to be concerned about.

[Jeff Schussele]

I should have also added that it's also possible that a misbehaving application that's talking directly to the network HW could also cause this.
Here's a good reference on DLPI:

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90139/B2355-90139_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90139/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90139/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=dlpi&queryid=20030530-144155

HTH,
Jeff

[Dario_1]

Jeff / S.K.

Thank you for the answers. Have a nice weekend.

Regards,

DR