Hi David, Sun hardware is really not my area of expertise, but I'm sure there are others on amanda-users who can answer this. If your Sun boxes will only do 10 Mbps/half-duplex then just make sure your switch ports are set to either auto/auto or 10/half and you'll be fine.
-Mitch On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mitch. > Here is the version of my Sun OS: > "SunOS gitpocs02 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10" > The /dev/hme is "FEPS Ethernet Driver v1.115" > The host seems too old to support 100/full-duplex. > Do you agree? > > Thanks! > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: speed problem > > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My tape server is a Linux host (Redhat 7.3). > > My clients are either Linux hosts or Sun Solaris hosts. > > All client hosts are on the same domain. > > When I run 'amdump' to backup Linux hosts, the speed is pretty good. > > When I run 'amdump' to backup Sun Solaris hosts, the speed is extremely > > slow. > > It seems not a network or hardware issue. > > Seems? You don't sound particularly sure on this point... In my > experience one thing that is a frequent cause of deadly slow network > backups is a duplex mismatch between a backup client and the ethernet > switch it connects to. I've seen systems that the user had been happily > using without complaint for weeks or months before asking for backups. > When their backup went painfully slow I'd check their network settings > and invariably find a duplex mismatch. > > Another cause of slowness can be doing client compression, especially > "client best" on slow hardware. How old/slow are your Solaris boxen? > > -Mitch >