On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:55 -0500, Derick Anderson wrote: [snip] > > If I were you I would monitor top during a large transfer and maybe do > an ethereal dump as well. If your two endpoint machines are both on Gbit > LAN and your firewall is 100Mbit (on a 100/1000 switch) then perhaps > your firewall NICs are getting overloaded. Every night at my company all > the servers (Gbit) back up to a local machine (100Mbit). They each have > their time window for backing up but it's common for Nagios to report an > "UNKNOWN" status for the backup server in the early morning hours. Of > course that could simply be the poor little backup server not having the > time to reply... > > Derick Anderson According to netstat -i I shouldn't be having issues with overloading the interfaces. (TX-ERR on eth0 and eth1 are static and have not incremented) I have 2/100MB and 2/1000MB interfaces. Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 0 50757220 0 0 050703586 523 0 0 BMRU eth0: 1500 0 - no statistics available - BMRU eth1 1500 0 339989009 0 0 0397086634 3381 0 0 BMRU eth1: 1500 0 - no statistics available - BMRU eth2 1500 0 409181861 0 0 0344550753 0 0 0 BMRU eth3 1500 0 11352902 0 0 015003672 0 0 0 BMRU eth3: 1500 0 - no statistics available - BMRU It is running on the Devil Linux distro. -- James Harrison RHCE Manager, Information Security AIM: harrijh1
