[Samba] Re: Connection reset by peer

John Mazza maz at maznets.com
Fri Dec 24 15:06:39 GMT 2004


I agree.  This indicates a packet loss on the LAN. I would check the cables and switches.  If you can, try using a 
10,000 packet flood ping from the server to a suspect host, with a 1500=byte packet size.  This is a nice quick test 
of network health.  Oh - a bad NIC at either end can also do this.

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:15:52 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:

>I had some of those showing up on a test network with home-made LAN cables. I switched it to pre-fab tested onces 
and the errors went away. So, one vote for LAN cable issues. Connection resets are a 
>TCP/IP stack condition you could pick up the existance of with a sniffer, Samba in my opinion is being nice and 
logging that it detected it happening.
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