Bug 15049 – amanda UDP packet size too small

Bug 15049 - amanda UDP packet size too small

Summary:	amanda UDP packet size too small

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Powertools
Classification:	Retired
Component:	amanda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	2000-08-01 15:57 EDT by Frank Ch. Eigler
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-08-01 16:44:21 EDT
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2000-08-01 15:57:35 EDT

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 14:31:57 EDT

Fixed (by upgrade) in amanda-2.4.2-0.19991216beta1.1. Thanks for the report.

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