Bug 15049

Summary: amanda UDP packet size too small
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Powertools Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: amandaAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2000-08-01 19:57:35 UTC 
Amanda uses UDP packets to yak between backup servers and clients.  The
default maximum packet size is pretty small (see MAX_DGRAM in
common-src/dgram.h).  It is so small in fact that a client with more than a
couple of dozen backup directories can fail to participate in an amanda
run.  This problem is known to the amanda developers, and as a quick
workaround, they have suggested upping this limit to near the TCP/IP
maximum.  So, consider applying this
pseudo-patch:

common-src/dgram.h:
-#include MAX_DGRAM    8192
+#include MAX_DGRAM    65500
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-12 18:31:57 UTC 
Fixed (by upgrade) in amanda-2.4.2-0.19991216beta1.1. Thanks for the report.