> > For now, I'm giving up on having an offsite storage daemon. I don't > > have the money to spend on a fully working router. So I'm going to > > just keep the storage daemon on the same machine as the director, and > > then rsync the physical volumes afterwards offsite. > > Though this is better solution that what you originally wanted (rsync is > going to be more robust and faster over your WAN link than bacula would > be), you could either flash your v5 (even if you brick it, you can > easily un-brick it) or simply pick up any number of the > dd-wrt/openwrt/etc. compatible routers for cheap. A new Buffalo WHR-54GS > usually goes for < $40, and sometimes <$30 and is far better than v5. I > can't imagine that $40 is out of your budget. DD-WRT will allow you to > set TCP timeouts upto one hour and probably actually understands > keepalive.
Keepalives are a function of the endpoints, the keepalives generate traffic and it is the traffic that refreshes the connection in the connection tracking tables on any intermediate routers and firewalls. The suggestion I posted earlier should resolve this problem. I've seen Cisco routers with stale connections that are weeks overdue in terms of being timed out! (and, due to various bugs in IOS, crash). 10 minutes is a bit short, but only if you aren't using SO_KEEPALIVE. Setting it too long opens you up to a denial of service attack too. > Besides, I don't think it a wise use of developer time fixing a problem > for what amounts to cheap consumable (and totally fixable) consumer > grade hardware. I rather they focus on features like the GUI, handling > extremely large backup sets and improving the core functionality. Agreed. The problem is at layer 3 and should be resolved there. Bacula already appears to include code to enable keepalives, so all that should be required is to tweak the kernel values down the right interval. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
