On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > > 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.
Someone else suggested that offlist. There was a driver update for the onboard nforce ethernet, so I applied that and we'll see how that goes. Thanks, -- Jason Dixon OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 443.325.1357 x.241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
