Paul Yeatman wrote:
There is a firewall on both sides but I have had the client side firewall off for the purpose of this test and the server side firewall isn't blocking any outbound activity. Possibly as best evidence (as mentioned in my original post and I feel bad that in my last reply I didn't include my original post and all replies), I have made one successful backup of this client using this config but only when trying to backup less than the full partition. In the successful case, it was a 3G directory. Yet every time I've tried to back up the full partition (17G), I can't get past a successful estimate even when increasing the etimeout from 900s to 2600s. I would conclude from the successful case that the firewall is not interferring.
I think the firewall is the cullprit. The server sends a UDP packet with the request for the estimate. When finished the client sends a reply UDP back. But by that time the firewall does not relate the reply to the request and drops or denies the packet. And hence the client does not receive an ACK and retries 3 times to send the reply and gives up. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
