Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:34:33 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> To: Martin Welk <mw@freibergnet.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980804193154.18786C-100000@ns.double-barrel.be> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980804154527.mw@freibergnet.de>
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I've had a simillar problem ones, but this turned out it was due to a Network card being flaky. So I would sugest trying to install an other network card and trying it again. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Martin Welk wrote: > Hi, > > one of our customers has a wired ftp problem: > > If he tries to put a file to our ftp server that is bigger than 25 KByte > the data gets screwed up. That means, for example, a HTML document contains > some lines of ^@ symbols (using less :-) ) in the text before it goes on > normally. The same happens with other files, and changing between BINARY and > ASCII mode has no effect. He uses passive mode ftp, as he is behind a > firewall (a Novell MPR). Transferring files to another server on our net > works without problems, putting files to another server in another net, too. > > The system is a HP NetServer 5/166 LC (Pentium 166) with 96 MByte RAM, > two SCSI disks (2 and 4 GB), DAT tape, 3x10-Mbit/s-Ethernet and has an > ipfirewall running, as it's routing between those three ethernet cards > (only IP routing). It run's an early 2.2-RELEASE compiled by Joerg Wunsch > with ftpd 6.0, and does everything else absolutely flawless, so we haven't > had a reason to upgrade yet. And other customers do definitely not have > similar problems, even with much larger files. > > The machine is somewhat loaded doing WWW server, SMTP server, DNS, but as we > have currently a 64k link it's never overloaded. > > The destinations to which the transfers worked are an NT 4.0 server (what > a pity!) and a machine running 2.2.6-RELEASE. This machine is located > behind another machine also running 2.2.6 which does routing and firewall. > > HELP! > > I simply don't know how to search anymore. I have recompiled the ftpd from > the 2.2 sources from which our system has been created in March '95 and > reinstalled it, perhaps that will be help, but unfortunately the customer > has a network problem at the moment and can't try it... > > Regards, > > Martin > -- > Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur GbR // Martin Welk > Advertising, Art Design & DTP // network administration > Xlink Point Of Presence Freiberg // phone: (+49|0) 3731 781-387 > Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 // fax: (+49|0) 3731 781-377 > D-09599 Freiberg, Germany // http://www.freibergnet.de/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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