Charles:

It sounds as though you may have some parts of your "private" network not
running 100 Meg Full Duplex or some combination thereof.  I have
experienced these same problems and I have found on many occasions a
Network Interface Card on a client was not set 100 Meg Full Duplex
operation.  Every piece of Network hardware in the connetion must be
running 100 Meg/FullDuplex.  Auto-Sense or Auto Configuration for NIC Card
is not acceptable(especially if you have Cisco networking hardware!!!!).
Then verify that ADSM Server NIC is set to 100 Meg Full Duplex,
Hub/Switch/Router Ports are all set to 100 Meg Full Duplex, as well.  I am
making an assumption that sense this is a "private" network that doing this
will not cause a great deal of agony...Otherwise, performance just
stinks...

brandon...





From: O1=INET00/C=US/A=IBMX400/P=STATEFARM/DD.RFC-822=ADSM-L\@VM.MARIST.EDU
on 10/28/98 08:15:40 AM
To:   ADSM-L
cc:
Subject:  backup taking too long

Good Morning People, I am seeing a strange problem and
am hoping that someone out there in the ADSM might have
an answer or solution. One of our ADSM client is a
AIX Box (Raven S70) that is used as our mail server,
running Domino 4.2. Up till a few weeks ago, the
backup time for this has been about 3 hours. Now
it is taking more like 4 or 5 days to do a backup.
I am running on a 100mb hub (private network) (not
part of the campus wide network system). Nothing
major has change. I can not believe that we have
a growth in the number of email traffic here. Any
tips and/or sugguestion would be appreicated. Thanks!
Charles

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Charles E. Drawdy
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Gallaudet University
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