[ENBD] Re: 20G dd hang up!

[Matthew Sackman]

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:38:45PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> "A month of sundays ago Matthew Sackman wrote:"
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> > > # make test (this didn't succeed.)
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> He's in trouble already here.  The TEST must succeed.  There is no point
> in proceding until the test can be run.  Maybe he means that he
> succeeded with a lolcalhost to localhost test, and then attempted local
> to remote but didn't get anywahere.
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> If that is the case he needs to make it clear and investigate.
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> > What network cards are you using? I have had a whole load of similar
> > problems with netgear fa311a cards which I've now pulled out of every
> > machine I have - almost anything seems to be better than those cards
> > which just drop packets.
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> Interesting. But it should be covered up by tcp, surely?

On the whole yes - I noticed more troubles with NFS than with any other
service, nevertheless, the web hosting company I work for has also ripped
these cards out of over 2000 machines and replaced the lot. They are
clearly regarded not fit for even the (relatively) light traffic of web
hosting.

Matthew

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Matthew Sackman
Nottingham
England

BOFH Excuse Board:
short leg on process table

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