Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup unexpected problem.

[Brice Figureau]

Hi Dean,

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 16:58 -0800, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Brice Figureau wrote:
> 
> > Since a few days (our Internet connection was accidently down), I can't
> > backup one of the machine (the other seems to be fine), and all I get is
> > the following error:
> > 
> > Read from remote host server3: Connection reset by peer
> ...
> > A tcpdump trace show that the remote server closes the TCP connection 
> > (RST), thus the Connection reset by peer.
> > Anyone have an idea of how I can fix that ?
> 
> i have this problem on and off and it typically clears up in a few days.  
> my wild guess is that it's related to heavy NAT traffic (my NAT is just 
> another linux box) when there are dozens of bittorrents going... but i've 
> never proved this wild guess true or false.  i think the problem is 
> *somewhere* in the networking as opposed to in the rdiff-backups though...

You are right, this is a networking problem not related to rdiff-backup.
Even downloading with HTTP of a big file exhibits the same behaviour.
I guess I have to RMA the router...

I'm sorry for the false alert.

[snip]
> -dean

Thank you for your help!

Brice