From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 12:28:56 2002 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 24BF437B406 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6E043E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (lan08.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAOKCmt01276; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:12:48 -0800 Message-ID: <001a01c293f8$12720530$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: "Matthew Seaman" Cc: References: <007101c2934a$8bad2b40$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <20021124122145.GB19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Subject: Re: Network connection dropping during file transfers Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:28:22 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Hi Matthew. Thanks for your response. Pending more tests, the problem has been resolved. Special thanks to Stacey Roberts and his girlfriend. :) A while back I expanded our subnet from 255.255.255.224 to 255.255.255.0. Long story short: Samba was binding to the wrong broadcast address. That is, 192.168.1.31 instead of 192.168.1.255. It was an oversight of mine -- a setting I forgot to changed during the subnet expansion extravaganza. I haven't done any real sniffing to see what was actually going on when the interface timed out. I'm just glad it works now. I'll celebrate 50 hours of overtime with a beer or two...or three, maybe four 5 6 7... I'll answer some of your questions below. > i) Is there any chance of meeting your deadline given the current state > of your system? I will be able to meet the deadline now. Yay! (The citizens of Custom Film Effects -- after much deliberation -- decide to acknowledge System Administrator Day) > ii) Have you ever had this hardware setup working well under this sort > of load? Not really. I've added render engines and workstations recently. Also, the new version of Digital Fusion seems to be more efficient at using processor time and memory so I really cranks out frames. > iii) Do you really need 1000baseTX network speeds? Absolutely. We're dealing with 12MB cineon images. Some comp'd shots render very quickly -- load, save, load, save, load, save, load, save ... Thanks for taking an interest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message