FYI.  Just to let everyone know we found the answer.  The problem lurked in
tcpn05.  This disable the old command in the tcpip.cfg file.  WE had to add
commands in the autoexec.ncf file to set the packet size back to the maximum
the network card could hold.

for ethernet servers
set use specific mtu=on
set maximum interface mtu=1500

for token ring servers
set use specific mtu=on
set maximum interface mtu=4096


these are not documented.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Firl Debra K
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 4:31 PM
> To:   'adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu'
> Cc:   Patterson Barry J
> Subject:      packet size
>
> We are using adsm 3.1.3 to backup 80 + Novell and 30  NT servers which are
> mixed clients 2.7 and 3.1.3.  Many of the server backups started to not
> finish up by morning.  We ran sniffer traces of the data and  all the
> sudden all the servers are sending the backups in packet size of 576.  We
> are using tcpip.cfg in the sys:\etc directory which has the following line
> tcpmssinternetlimit off.  We are on netware 4.11 and newest nds 5.99a.
> Any suggestions?