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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:18:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net
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Subject: Re: freebsd and wu-ftpd not disconnecting users.
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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net wrote:

> I am sorry if this message sounds like I am missing something obvious,
> but I am in a bit of a jam and I am attempting to find out what the
> problem might be.  I have a client who is trying to upload a few files
>  into his homedirectory using ftp.  I am running freebsd 2.2.5-release
> along with the wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta-15 port.  I have noticed a few strange
> things happening here.  First, often times, he is unable to complete an
> upload to the server if the file is over a meg in size.  However, when I
> use my ftp client on win95 and try and upload large files to the same
> server, it works without a hitch.  My huntch is that it is on his isp's
> end that he can't always complete ftp uploads, when I can always
> complete them?

Try disabling tcp_extensions in /etc/rc.conf on the FreeBSD machine.
Their connection may be going through an Annex box which munges those
extensions.

> Also, wu-ftpd never disconnects the user from his ftpd session.  

This may be related.  You might check the output of `netstat' and see what
the state of the hung connections are.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major