> -----Original Message-----

> I have a very weird problem with my amanda system, that maybe others
> may be able to help.  Here's my issue:
> 
> I have a server and two clients.  The server and one client are
> RedHat 9, while the other client is RHEL 4.  The problem I'm having
> is with the two RH9 boxes.  The server had been doing a check 
> (which returns okay), and doing a weekly backup as normal.  Two weeks ago,

> in the backup report, I noticed a "timeout waiting for REP" from the RH9 
> client, but the disk was backed up no problem.  This past week, the 
> check ran, and detected no problem.  Then, with the backup report, I got a

> "timeout waiting for ACK", and no backup was done on the disk.  
> Since then, I've been running amcheck manually to see if the client 
> can be reached, and I continue to get a timeout error.  (The RHEL 4 
> client has not had any problems, is being backed up, and contacted 
> with every amcheck.)
> 
> The server and the client in question are directly connected via
> second ethernet jacks and a crossover cable. There are no port
> errors (that I can find) on the private ethernet.  The 
> machines have not been rebooted in over 40 days, and there has 
> been no changes to either configuration (once it was working 
> correctly, I didn't touch it again).
> I orginally did my set-up in December, and it's worked since 
> then without any problems.  I went through all the steps for the timeout 
> errors, and it should work (according to those). These two machines 
> are both runing amanda-2.5.0b1-20051205. 

Just to follow up on this: after making sure a default route was included
with the second ethernet jack, I rebooted the server machine on the private
network, and then ran an amcheck.  It came back properly this time.  
If the backup doesn't work correctly this weekend, I'll send another
respone.