On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:01:12AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> Jason Dixon <jdixon AT omniti DOT com> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Kshatriya wrote:
> >> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jason Dixon wrote:
> >> > We moved our Bacula Director off Linux to Solaris (not my choice)
> >> > recently.  Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the
> >> > catalog backup job which reads from the local FD.  They always
> >> > fail with a "Packet size too big" error, which seems to be more
> >> > common with Windows hosts.  Has anyone seen this on Solaris?
> >> 
> >> Check if you are using a different MTU size than the rest of your
> >> hosts in the network.
> >
> > This is only for the localhost FD.  Traffic should never hit a
> > physical interface.
> 
> I don't know if it is relevant, but the MTU for lo0 on Solaris is 8232
> by default.  perhaps Bacula can't handle it?
> 
> I wouldn't use "localhost" anyway -- I prefer to use globally unique
> names to keep things clear.  there should be no perceivable difference
> in performance.

Good idea, I've put this into testing.  I'll report back our results in
a few days.

Thanks,

-- 
Jason Dixon
OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
jdixon AT omniti DOT com
443.325.1357 x.241

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