2005/8/30, LaValley, Brian E <BLaValley AT allegromicro DOT com>:
> Can someone please help me get to the bottom of this issue?  I have Amanda
> 2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 3 machine which is the tape server.  It has no
> trouble backing up itself and other Linux machines.  The trouble comes with
> a Sun Solaris 8 client which never completes its estimate. I tried to keep
> increasing the etimeout value, but I am at 29600 and am wondering how far I
> should go?  Is there some other part I should be looking at? Thank you.
> 

Is ths sun box behind a firewall ? If so, there may be issues with the
firewall. You have to increase some retention time parameters for UDP
packets.