On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:

>     Niall> serv1 /boot lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.]  serv1 /
>     Niall> lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.]
> 
>   Bingo. What is the firewall?

A Linux box with 2.4.x (10, I think) and iptables (using SuSE's
SuSEfirewall2 script). It's NOT a very powerful box.

>   The firewall is a 233Mhz PII. The load on it is neglible. It has a 3Mb
> bridged ethernet ADSL in front of it which is pretty much busy all the time.

I think my firewall is probably of that order of power, if not a bit less.
Wouldn't have quite as much external traffic though.

>     Niall> amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for
>     Niall> ack: timeout, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10
> 
>   Yeah... I get that as well. But not always.

Wehn I've looked I've always found that.

>   One possibility is that the state for the UDP connection is failing. 
> I would expect to see something in the firewall logs on this, and I'd expect
> to see the 10080 packet on one side of the firewall and not on the other.

That sounds reasonable - I haven't examined the firewall's logs (these
machines are in a different country from me, and I don't at the moment have
remote access to the firewall).

>   I will test with turning off stateful inspection on the UDP stream and see
> what happens.
> 
>   If this is the case, then Amanda perhaps needs to do keepalives.
> 
>     Niall> Like you, I've RTFM and STFW but to no avail. I didn't get to the
>     Niall> the tcpdump stage yet, mind you.
> 
>   Thank you for the reply.

Thank you for letting me know that I'm not alone :-)

As to Ulrik's suggestions, I already have etimeout set to 3000 and netusage
set to 50000.


Niall

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