Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2008-11-26 19:04:23
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho AT linpro DOT no>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:01:12 +0100
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.

-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)


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