On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
> Jason Dixon wrote:
>> We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs.
>> Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday
>> during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no longer
>> ping the box or perform any networking functionality.
>> Disabling/re-enabling the interface doesn't help. The only remedy is to
>> reboot the box.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this with XP before? Is it possibly a
>> combination of software that is causing the issue (e.g. AVG)? Any known
>> workarounds?
>
> This is almost certainly either a buggy NIC driver or a hardware
> (NIC/switch/cable) problem. If all three XP machines have the same NIC and
> driver version, then it's probably hardware. Otherwise, my guess is the NIC
> driver. During a full backup, Bacula, naturally, places a heavy load on the
> NIC, and so Bacula will definitely reveal any underlying network problems.
> I ran into this with a couple of Vista laptops, and also with a nForce430
> chipset XP machine. I have found it is not uncommon for Windows NIC drivers
> to be buggy.
Someone else suggested that offlist. There was a driver update for the onboard
nforce ethernet, so I applied that and we'll see how that goes.
Thanks,
--
Jason Dixon
OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
jdixon AT omniti DOT com
443.325.1357 x.241
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