[Samba] network collapse

[Sven Schwedas]

On 2015-04-16 11:26, sambait3 at fuckaround.org wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> on debian stable I've a default samba file sharing config. Everything
> works perfectly (almost...) - samba version 3.6.6
> 
> From linux and windows clients (wired and wifi too) when I (i.e. listen
> musics) often (one time every 4/5 minutes) networks suddenly collapse (for
> less one second) and immediately goes up. So I've an interrupt of
> broadcast (this happens also if I use rsync via samba with bandwidth
> limit).
> 
> Using rsync or wget for transfer files from same server I don't have any
> problems (avoiding samba service).
> 
> I've several NICs, this problem happens on all interfaces
> 
> samba logs (debug) nothing of good to audit, system log none, iptables is
> ok, I tried with minimal services (samba only), I try to modify tcp socks
> to tuning samba but nothing... also rebooting the server
> 
> now: what should I do?

Keep tcpdump running and if you get an interruption, try to see whether
something suspicious is happening.

(Btw, shouldn't music players implement buffering to catch network outages?)

> 
> thanks for help!
> 
> Pol
> 

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Sven Schwedas
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