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Re: [Bug 3610] New: kernel-2.6.9 breaks Amanda

To: Bill Ralph <wralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Bug 3610] New: kernel-2.6.9 breaks Amanda
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:16:32 -0700
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <41793958.3050306@nswc.navy.mil>
Organization: Open Source Development Lab
References: <200410211647.i9LGlnp1030223@fire-1.osdl.org> <20041021121205.30556eac@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net> <41793958.3050306@nswc.navy.mil>
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> >>Problem Description: Amanda clients exchanges UDP packets with the server 
> >>giving
> >>it a TCP port number with which to connect in order to receive files to be
> >>dumped to tape. Under kernel-2.6.8.1 the sofware performs perfectly. Under
> >>kernel-2.6.9, with exactly the same Amanda software, the UDP packet exchange
> >>seems to occur, but no TCP connection between client and server occurs. The
> >>client eventually times out with messages like:
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Could you capture a tcpdump of the exchange, especially the failed 
> >connection attempt?
> >  
> >
> Here are two traces, one on the Amanada server machine, one on the 
> client machine. Not very useful, as there is no sign that the server 
> even attempts to connect to the client with a TCP connection.

Is there a firewall that is blocking the connection for some reason.
Can you successfully make a TCP connection between the two machines with some 
other command?
ssh, telnet, ttcp

Perhaps this is another instance of an OpenBSD firewall stomping on window 
scaling.

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