From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 08:57:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA29464 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29444 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:57:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07645; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:56:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:56:42 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Kevin Hendrix cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extremely Slow FTP Logins In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980106094204.00815c90@rocksolid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Do these machines have multiple IPs on them? Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Kevin Hendrix wrote: > Hi. > > I am having problems with a couple of FreeBSD boxes and was searching > for some answers. Users are complaining about extremely slow FTP > logins. I've run some tests myself and come up with the same results > as my users. When connecting to the FTP port on my server, I can > enter my username and be immediately prompted for a password. When I > enter my password, there will be a 3-5 minute pause before it verifies > and allows me access to the system. Once logged in, there are no more > delays and the FTP session performs as expected. > > The problem is that most of my users use M$ Win95 based FTP clients > which croak on the long pause after entering the password. Any help > on the problem would be appreciated. > > Let me tell you a little about our network (in order to give you a > more full picture of what is going on). My servers operated on a > dedicated T1 to MCI which is not heavily loaded, and all of my users > come in through this connection. Most users connect from various > dial-up providers from across the US, but I've already ruled out the > possibility of general "netlag" causing the problems. The problem > existed even while accessing the server on internal 10MB ethernet > connections. > > I have experienced this problem on servers running both v2.2.1 and > v2.2.2 of FreeBSD. Our servers are PPro200 machines with 128MB > memory, SCSI HDD, and Cogent 10/100 etherenet adapters (DEC PCI) > running into a 100MB ethernet switch. > > Again, any help on the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > kevin > kevin@rocksolid.net >