On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:19 -0800, Kevin Till wrote: > Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > > Thanks Stefan, I do have iptables running on the client since it is my > > firewall machine.
There is another problem with amanda and iptables that made me crazy for quite a while. It doesn't sound like it's your problem, but just in case, here's a note I wrote to myself: > If a DLE is large and the client is behind an iptables firewall, the > estimate can timeout. This is because iptables has a timeout (30 > minutes) to kill inactive TCP connections, and the estimate takes > longer than that. The kernel sends keepalive packets on TCP, but > the default time (2 hours (7200 seconds)) is longer than the iptables > timeout so iptables decides the connection has been abandoned and > tears it down. > > To fix this by setting the kernel keepalive time to 15 minutes, login > as root on the client and: > > 'echo 900 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time' > > see http://documents.made-it.com/iptables-timeout.html The client's keepalive timeout is reset to 2 hours every time it reboots. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED]
