Try setting your NIC to a specific speed, rather than to autonegotiate.
stan wrote:
> Greetings everyone;
>
> I have a server that runs software called Hobbit which monitors systems for
> various events such as full disk drives, ping failures, excessive processor
> load, etc. One of the things we want to monitor via hour Hobbit server is
> the status of NetWorker backups.
>
> I have two NetWorker servers. Let's call one X and the other server Y.
> Server X is a Sun T2000 with Solaris 10 and NetWorker 7.4.1. Server Y is a
> Dell 2950 with Red Hat Linux AS 4.5 and NetWorker 7.4.4. The Hobbit server
> is also running Red Hat Linux and NetWorker client 7.4.4.
>
> On the Hobbit server, when I do something like
>
> mminfo -v -s X -c client1 -ot
>
> The response takes around 6-7 minutes to appear.
>
> If I do something like
>
> mminfo -v -s Y -c client2 -ot
>
> I get a near instantenous response.
>
> If I log onto server X and do the same
>
> mminfo -v -s X -c client1 -ot
>
> Command, I get a near instantaneous response.
>
> NetWorker server X has two NICs. One NIC has various tagged VLAN addresses
> associated with it. They all work fine for backups. The second NIC is the
> one over which the mminfo query is being done from the Hobbit server. This
> second NIC isn't in heavy use at all. Its 1GB and its autonegotiating
> properly with our switch.
>
> If I log onto one of the clients that gets backed up to Server X via one of
> its tagged VLAN addresses, the same mminfo command gets a very fast
> response.
>
> I have been working with one of our network management type people on this
> problem and he sees nothing wrong on either end. Server X responds to mminfo
> commands quickly on a variety of other servers, except when the commands
> come from our Hobbit server. The mminfo commands to NetWorker server Y also
> result in fast responses. I can also back up the Hobbit server to Server X
> reasonably fast.
>
> If anyone has any ideas why mminfo commands take so long to process from our
> Hobbit server on only NetWorker server X, but NetWorker server X provides
> fast mminfo reports to other servers, please let me know.
>
>
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