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Re: Windows XP network lockup, when using rsync


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:15:16PM +0100, Howard Thomson wrote:
>I have installed the latest version of Cygwin to a WinXP machine (with
>10/100 Mbps builtin Ethernet) and to an older Win2000 machine (with 10
>Mbps CardBus i/f) and am working on the rsync source to add Win32
>native backup/restore of the security info.
>
>*Every* time that I run rsync, both the Cygwin default 2.6.6 version
>and my 2.6.9cvs patched version, rsync failes to complete a transfer
>from WinXP to Win2000 and reports that the other end disconnected.
>
>With 100% success rate, WinXP is subsequently unable to: ping, browse
>internet, respond to ping, ipconfig /renew..., in fact all networking
>fails and the machine hangs in attempting to hibernate and mostly hangs
>in attempting to shutdown.
>
>I had had *no* problems, at all, prior to attempting to use rsync !

Regardless of this data point, if you are having this type of problem
there is something wrong with either your Windows installation, the
driver for your network card, or your computer.

This isn't a Cygwin problem.  A user mode program like rsync should not
be able to cause this type of behavior.  If it could, that's an exploit
just waiting to happen.

cgf

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