On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:21:13AM -0500, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
> After pressing the hardware issue with some people with more say-so, we
> started evaluating the hardware on the network getting the client
> timeout. We never got to the client itself...we never got past the
> firewall. Not because of bad rules or bad routing....but because of:
>  5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>      896810035 packets input, 4090731415 bytes
>      Received 13577 broadcasts, 339279460 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>      339279460 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
> 
> Yeah, that's right 330 million errors...and it's not the ethernet cable
> or the switch port...it's on the 4 port NIC in the firewall. That
> particular subnet is feeding off of a bad NIC in the 4 port. 
> 
> I can't say for sure that this is what caused my amanda failures yet,
> but I have a sneaking suspicion that after I rectify the NIC problem, my
> amanda problems will go away, too.


You know the old saw:

   To a hardware person it is always software,
   To a software person it is always hardware,
   To an administrator it is always both!

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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