On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:21:00PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
> Jason Dixon wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Also, you could try disabling checksum offload and/or segmentation offload
> in the NIC's advanced settings.
The new driver didn't help. Installed an Intel card, we'll see how that
goes.
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Jason Dixon
OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
jdixon AT omniti DOT com
443.325.1357 x.241
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