From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 10 17:13:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27059 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wiz.plymouth.edu (wiz.plymouth.edu [158.136.154.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27054 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ted@wiz.plymouth.edu) Received: (from ted@localhost) by wiz.plymouth.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA05718 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:13:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Ted Wisniewski Message-Id: <199808110013.UAA05718@wiz.plymouth.edu> Subject: Odd problem with NFS? To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:13:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A bit of background: We have a NetApp filer for disk storage and FreeBSD based server of the following general configuration. bsd: 384MB ram (FreeBSD 2.2.6 + SEC Patches) P233 4 G internal SCSI wide drive Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet The Netapp filer and the FreeBSD box are on a 100Mbit switch and are the only machines directly connected to the switch. The problem, we are getting seemingly random corruptions (mostly in mail spool files), the corruptions are a bunch of NULL characters written to the file in place of real data. I cannot seem to pin it down, I am making the assumption that it has to do with the NFS interaction between the NetApp and my FreeBSD Box. I have tried to duplicate the problem but cannot, however, the users are definitely experiencing it (as I have had to fix 10 or so mail spool files). I have eliminated the mail client/server applications as a possible culprit(s) by seeing what the users do and do not have in common. Any advice anyone can offer will be appreciated.... I am nearly out of options. Thanks... -- | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Computer Services ted@wiz.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 HTTP: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message