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
