->>In response to your message<<-
  --received from Paul Bijnens--
>
> Paul Yeatman wrote:
> >
> >There is a firewall on both sides but I have had the client side
> >firewall off for the purpose of this test and the server side firewall
> >isn't blocking any outbound activity.
> >
> >Possibly as best evidence (as mentioned in my original post and I feel
> >bad that in my last reply I didn't include my original post and all
> >replies), I have made one successful backup of this client using this
> >config but only when trying to backup less than the full partition.  In
> >the successful case, it was a 3G directory.  Yet every time I've tried
> >to back up the full partition (17G), I can't get past a successful
> >estimate even when increasing the etimeout from 900s to 2600s.  I would
> >conclude from the successful case that the firewall is not
> >interferring.
> 
> I think the firewall is the cullprit.
> The server sends a UDP packet with the request for the estimate.
> When finished the client sends a reply UDP back.
> But by that time the firewall does not relate the reply to the request
> and drops or denies the packet.  And hence the client does not receive
> an ACK and retries 3 times to send the reply and gives up.

Hmmmm.  Well, that would be easy enough to test but would this explain
how the smaller backup of the same client/config succeeded?

Paul

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