Network dropping during large file transfer FC5

[tsun]

Hey guys,

eth0 info is set up correctly, i can ping out, surf the web, access my files on my windows boxes from samba, etc. but when i go to transfer a large amount of data to my server after about 8minutes or so it 'craps' otu saying <windows side> 'network source/device is unreachable' or something to that effect. I have iptables trained to only allow connections to my internal network x.x.0.0/16 .. i even <gasp> took the firewall down to make sure it wasnt messing anything up. SElinux is disabled, etc ... even replaced the NIC last night with a new gig netgear card. mac addre updated and cruising the web,etc works fine until i go to do the mass file transfer... any thoughts ?

[jhetrick62]

It sounds like a Samba issue to me, not a hardware issue. I think that I had a hard time with files over 2gb transferring to my Samba server in FC4. I didn't take the time to troubleshoot it as the only files I had larger than that were iso dvd files and I only had two, so I left it alone.

Jeff

[tsun]

yah im doing a huge restore via samba share, but i may just end up using nfs. i searched around a bit and it looks like there have been problems with samba handling large files. anyone have any info on this ?

[jhetrick62]

You may just have to increase your send and rec buffer sockets, but that is a guess not a fact. I have not experimented with this.

Goodluck,
Jeff

[tsun]

Originally Posted by jhetrick62

You may just have to increase your send and rec buffer sockets, but that is a guess not a fact. I have not experimented with this.

Goodluck,
Jeff

i have not tried increasing the buffer sockets .. but i noticed that this was happeneing around the 6gig+ in my transfer .. sometimes i can get 10+ gigs some times just 4-6gigs .. its not constant... i am writing this info from a windows client to the samba server ... to a raid-0 drive .... i had no problem on fc4 with this ... dunno why its cropping up now .