On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:21:13AM -0500, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: > After pressing the hardware issue with some people with more say-so, we > started evaluating the hardware on the network getting the client > timeout. We never got to the client itself...we never got past the > firewall. Not because of bad rules or bad routing....but because of: > 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec > 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec > 896810035 packets input, 4090731415 bytes > Received 13577 broadcasts, 339279460 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles > 339279460 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored > > Yeah, that's right 330 million errors...and it's not the ethernet cable > or the switch port...it's on the 4 port NIC in the firewall. That > particular subnet is feeding off of a bad NIC in the 4 port. > > I can't say for sure that this is what caused my amanda failures yet, > but I have a sneaking suspicion that after I rectify the NIC problem, my > amanda problems will go away, too.
You know the old saw: To a hardware person it is always software, To a software person it is always hardware, To an administrator it is always both! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
