Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!jstewart
From: jstewart@sce.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: VaxCluster and rdump don't mix?
Message-ID: <710@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 15 Nov 89 19:02:35 GMT
Reply-To: jstewart@sce.UUCP (John Stewart)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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We backup a number of Sun machines on our ethernet backbone using rdump.
While this is running the network is busy but still usable by Sun machines.
There are also 3 DEC machines on the backbone that are VaxCluster'd with
a megaton of DEC hardware in our Physics subnet (isolated from the backbone
via a Retix bridge).  The DEC machines seem to intensely dislike the network
load because they start crashing and rebooting themselves while we are
running our backups.


   Our physics people blame the problem on our backbone ethernet (and us
by insinuation as we maintain the backbone).  I think the problem lies with
the VaxCluster software but we're not a DEC shop so we can only speculate
about that.

   If anyone else has run into this problem I sure would like to hear your
advice.
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