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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mem.net!usenet From: Ken <welk@mem.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FTP problem Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:00:18 -0600 Organization: Synapse Internet Connections Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3326E122.6174@mem.net> Reply-To: welk@mem.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn015.tc-1.mem.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36944 Problem of the day for this newbie: FTP transfers from client to FreeBSD 2.1.5 server usually fail or are so slow that I abort the process. The result typically is that the file is created in the target directory but with zero bytes. Sometimes a partial transfer occurs. Occasionally, a full, successful transfer occurs. Subsequent to failures, it seems additonal FTP requests, without breaking the FTP link, are very, very slow or fail. Slow is defined here as minutes for a 10K transfer (or until I give up on the transfer). When using an FTP client application that indicates transfer progress, it may be giving a useful clue in that it appears that 8K may get transfered quickly but then there is virtually no additional movement of data. However, smaller files also either fail to transfer or take so long I abort the process. This is a single client communicating with the FreeBSD server via 10baseT. Permissions for the server's target directory are set to rwx for the owner, who is the user doing the FTP transfers. Transfers from the server to the client are as fast as expected. Will anyone give me guidance in what is being done incorrectly here? Thanks. Ken Welch welk@mem.net