On Saturday 23 July 2005 22:22, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > You might make sure you have the latest drivers/firmware for the ethernet
> > card in your Windows system that is giving you problems. At least one
> > user recently found that this was the cause of his disconnects with a
> > Windows machine -- he had a NVidia ethernet card.
>
> Heh. Funny you should say that -- as I just posted, I just found that
> *MY* nVidia gigabit NIC appeared to be causing the problem. When I
> switched the machine's connection to its other onboard NIC, which is a
> Marvell Yukon PCI-E gigabit NIC, as a test (not expecting it to affect
> anything), the problem vanished and the backup is now running perfectly
> happily.
>
> So the FD thought the SD was pulling the plug, and the SD thought the FD
> had stopped sending data, and the real cause was that the NIC in between
> was dropping the connection....
Hmmm. It looks like NVidia would do better to concentrate on graphics cards
and forget trying to network.
This is probably the solution to a lot of frustration expressed in the past by
quite a number of Bacula users having Windows machines that did not want to
communicate correctly.
I'll add this to the Windows chapter of the manual ...
--
Best regards,
Kern
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