Networker

Re: [Networker] Compare Netoworker to other backup products

2005-10-29 04:25:39
Subject: Re: [Networker] Compare Netoworker to other backup products
From: Oscar Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:21:33 +0200
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Ty Young wrote:

TY> I would say 98% is quite good.
TY> 
TY> In my experience the Windows clients talk very nicely with Windows or UNIX
TY> backup servers (NetWorker) and the failures I've seen with clients are
TY> usually due to
TY> 
TY> (a) client NICs left at auto-negotiate instead of being forced 100/full

Say what? Using anything else than auto-negotiation is stupid. Auto 
negotiation has been a non-issue since the late 90s. However, I have seen 
plenty of examples where a clueless administrator has turned off 
auto-negotiation on the client, but left auto negotiation on on the 
switch. This ofcourse results in that the switch will regard the port as 
being in 100mbit/hdx mode, which will result in plenty of late collisions 
and really poor performance.

Please make yourself and the systems users a favour by using autoneg 
everywhere.

//Oscar

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