Jason Dixon wrote: > We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. > Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday > during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no longer > ping the box or perform any networking functionality. > Disabling/re-enabling the interface doesn't help. The only remedy is to > reboot the box. > > Has anyone encountered this with XP before? Is it possibly a > combination of software that is causing the issue (e.g. AVG)? Any known > workarounds? > >
This is almost certainly either a buggy NIC driver or a hardware (NIC/switch/cable) problem. If all three XP machines have the same NIC and driver version, then it's probably hardware. Otherwise, my guess is the NIC driver. During a full backup, Bacula, naturally, places a heavy load on the NIC, and so Bacula will definitely reveal any underlying network problems. I ran into this with a couple of Vista laptops, and also with a nForce430 chipset XP machine. I have found it is not uncommon for Windows NIC drivers to be buggy. > Thanks, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
