As someone suggested, you might try using different firmware. There are a lot of options for these linksyses. DD-WRT is definitely one of them but I personally prefer "tomato".
James Harper wrote: >> I think that makes any Bacula job longer than 10 minutes impossible >> > using > >> this Linksys router. Looks like I'm out of luck. I have updated to >> > the > >> newest firmware, and the Linksys config doesn't have any ability to >> > modify > >> the timeout value. I suppose I could buy a new router, or set up a >> > new > >> offsite backup storage daemon. Unless anyone else has any brilliant >> ideas :) >> >> Kern, if you are reading this, what are the chances that a heartbeat >> > could > >> be implemented between the director and the storage daemon? >> >> > > Is Bacula using setsockopt SO_KEEPALIVE's on every socket (it seems that > it does in bnet.c)? If so, you probably just need to set this to more > sensible values in /proc (assuming you are running Linux... I can't > remember if you said or not). > > Try: > > echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time > echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl > echo 10 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes > > This will send the first keepalive after 5 minutes, and then every 60 > seconds after that, and will drop the connection if no response is seen > from 10 consecutive probes. > > The default is that the keepalive won't start for 2 hours (7200 seconds) > after the connection has been idle. Not much good in your case. > > http://libkeepalive.sourceforge.net/docs/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO has some > useful info about the way it all works. > > Does Bacula include any application level keepalives? There should be no > need to do this if you've set /proc and setsockopt correctly, unless the > respective daemons implement their own application level timeouts. > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
