I'm working with a couple of HP Procurce switches. Lately I have been having some network issues and in the event logs, I see something that says "Excessive Jabbering on Port __". This alert occured on multiple ports and the switch has been restarting itself every so often. I took excessive jabbering to mean there is something up with the NIC's on that port, but I'm not 100% on that. I don't want to replace 5 different NIC's on these machines as most of them are on board and will need a full system board swap. Can anyone confirm this is what that means? Thanks!

I would also test your wiring to make sure that is not the issue. I had a similar problem with a wire being over a 100 meters, which a repeating device took care of. This was on HP procurve switches. You don’t have any PCI slots for a network card? I would much rather install a PCI card, than trying to replace the motherboard.

Yea we were having some serious wiring issues here also. All of the cabling was recently reterminated because we were getting alot of loss over the lines to the switches. Honestly, I didnt even think about PCI NIC's..lol.. Thanks for the feedback :)

Make sure the nic settings and the switch port settings match . If the user nic setting is auto for speed and duplex the switch port " must" be the same otherwise you will end up with mismatches with all the associated problems that this brings collisions,crc's ,jabbers etc ....

real simple test move the five lines to different ports. If the jabbering follows the move its the nics. If not its the switch. This is taking into consideration you are not getting OTHER errors on these ports like crc's or bad framing. Those can be related to wiring or autonegociation mismatch. Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search