I have a win32 machine whose motherboard (nforce2) has onboard 10/100 ethernet. I'll try to test this in the near future, but currently I'm using a 3com card in that machine.
Thanks, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Kern Sibbald > Sent: Saturday, 23 July, 2005 16:23 > To: Phil Stracchino > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client drops connection > > On Saturday 23 July 2005 22:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > You might make sure you have the latest drivers/firmware > for the ethernet > > > card in your Windows system that is giving you problems. > At least one > > > user recently found that this was the cause of his > disconnects with a > > > Windows machine -- he had a NVidia ethernet card. > > > > Heh. Funny you should say that -- as I just posted, I just > found that > > *MY* nVidia gigabit NIC appeared to be causing the problem. When I > > switched the machine's connection to its other onboard NIC, > which is a > > Marvell Yukon PCI-E gigabit NIC, as a test (not expecting > it to affect > > anything), the problem vanished and the backup is now > running perfectly > > happily. > > > > So the FD thought the SD was pulling the plug, and the SD > thought the FD > > had stopped sending data, and the real cause was that the > NIC in between > > was dropping the connection.... > > Hmmm. It looks like NVidia would do better to concentrate on > graphics cards > and forget trying to network. > > This is probably the solution to a lot of frustration > expressed in the past by > quite a number of Bacula users having Windows machines that > did not want to > communicate correctly. > > I'll add this to the Windows chapter of the manual ... > > -- > Best regards, > > Kern > > ("> > /\ > V_V > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
