> Just a shot in the dark, but it kinda sounds like the control connection
> is being dropped by something as the data is being transfered on the
> data port.  You can set the environmental variable NSR_KEEPALIVE_WAIT to
> a vaule like 30 to have the client send a keepalive packet every 30
> seconds to keep the control port open.

Okay.  I've seen that and I'll try a test with it.  I don't know what it
would be (no firewalls or anything), but maybe some switch is hanging
up?

> You may also need to set the TCP keepalive in Solaris' tcp/ip stack to
> 57 min, see http://www.unixadm.net/networking/tune.html for details on
> how and what to set.

Resetting the server is harder.  Since I can backup the file from
another client, I was discounting this one.  Perhaps I shouldn't.

I would note that it appears I'm losing the connection closer to 30
mintues than to an hour or 2 hours.  If the client changes don't work,
then I'll probably try to get downtime on the server...

Thanks.
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