From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 6:58:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F4D37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3832743F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003020414582100300jubcqe>; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:58:21 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14EwK79003087; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:58:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h14EwKGb003084; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:58:20 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: stan Cc: Free BSD Questions list Reply-To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Network bandwidth limiting? References: <20030202113806.GA28247@teddy.fas.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Feb 2003 09:58:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030202113806.GA28247@teddy.fas.com> Message-ID: <44fzr4jdo4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG stan writes: > I'm trying to replace an HP-UX workstation with an Athalon based GreeBSD > machine, This machien is an Amanda tape server. The FreeBSD machine is a > couple of orsers of mafnitude faster than the HP-UX machin, yet I;m having > problems with losing network conections during the backup sessions. The > Amanda clients are not tolerant of this, and I lose the backup session. > > I'm susecting a networking probem. The network is a simple 10base2 cable, > and the FreeBSD machine has always been an Amanda client, which worked > without a problem. > > I'm wondering if I'm not runing into a deliberate rate limiting issue on > the FreebSD machine. If for instnace I "ping -f" it, I get a bunch of lsot > packets, and a console message about limiting ping response times. What's happening there is that FreeBSD is rate-limiting ICMP packets being sent, which isn't relevant to the TCP packets that are carrying the data for your backups. > Where should I start looking for this? If it were I, with packet traces. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message