Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Saturday 23 July 2005 22:22, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Kern Sibbald wrote:
You might make sure you have the latest drivers/firmware for the ethernet
card in your Windows system that is giving you problems. At least one
user recently found that this was the cause of his disconnects with a
Windows machine -- he had a NVidia ethernet card.
Heh. Funny you should say that -- as I just posted, I just found that
*MY* nVidia gigabit NIC appeared to be causing the problem. When I
switched the machine's connection to its other onboard NIC, which is a
Marvell Yukon PCI-E gigabit NIC, as a test (not expecting it to affect
anything), the problem vanished and the backup is now running perfectly
happily.
So the FD thought the SD was pulling the plug, and the SD thought the FD
had stopped sending data, and the real cause was that the NIC in between
was dropping the connection....
Hmmm. It looks like NVidia would do better to concentrate on graphics cards
and forget trying to network.
This is probably the solution to a lot of frustration expressed in the past by
quite a number of Bacula users having Windows machines that did not want to
communicate correctly.
I'll add this to the Windows chapter of the manual ...
I know it would have helped me understand what was going on with my
setup, although I had a pretty good idea what was going on since I was
running the backup through a wireless connection.
What would the possibility be of trying to reopen the connection and
resending the file that was on the way when the connection is interrupted?
Joe.
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