on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:52:47AM +0200, Blazko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have a strange problem in network:
> when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine
> hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same
> thing on the same machine but with FreeBSD 4.1 some time ago. As far as
> I can say, the hang occurs when copying multimedia files. I noticed that
> the following file types were involved:
> 
> -PCX pictures
> -MPEG (movies and layer 3)
> -WAVes
> 
> I do not think that it depends on file size, cos even large tarballs or
> bzip2s make it, even if some GB of size. May this be a NIC error?
> 
> When working locally on that box, cp does not raise that error, thus I
> presume it is not due some IDE errors or that. When working remotely,
> the machine locks up totally, allowing no ping etc. When trying to do
> anything locally after a net hang, the machine is dead. Under FreeBSD
> the machine also rebooted just after a hang. Very strange.

Check your system logs on both sides of the NFS connection.

Peace.

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