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[Proftpd] Internal (LAN) access capped at 2MB/S?

Hey all

I have a 100Mbit/s home lan. One box is set up with proftpd. Downloading and uploading from/to proftpdbox (from other computers IN LAN ie internal) is capped at ~2000kb/s. The speed should be 4-5x that!

Code:

ServerName                      "joe's ftp running on gentoo"

Bind                            "192.168.1.102"

ServerType                      standalone

DefaultServer                  on



Port                            7001

PassivePorts                    60000 61000

MasqueradeAddress              70.25.246.53



Umask                          022



MaxInstances                    30

MaxLoginAttempts                3

TimeoutLogin                    30

TimeoutNoTransfer              60

TimeoutIdle                    60



User                            proftpd

Group                          proftpd



DefaultRoot ~

RequireValidShell off

DefaultTransferMode            binary

AllowForeignAddress on

AllowRetrieveRestart            on

AllowStoreRestart on

TransferRate RETR 0

TransferRate STOR 0

TransferRate STOU 0

TransferRate APPE 0

AllowOverwrite          on



<Limit SITE_CHMOD>

  DenyAll

</Limit>



# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.  If you do not

# want anonymous users, simply delete this entire <Anonymous> section.

#<Anonymous ~ftp>

#  User                        ftp

#  Group                                ftp

  # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"

#  UserAlias                    anonymous ftp

  # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins

#  MaxClients                  10

  # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed

  # in each newly chdired directory.

#  DisplayLogin                welcome.msg

#  DisplayFirstChdir            .message

  # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot

#  <Limit WRITE>

#    DenyAll

#  </Limit>

#</Anonymous>



<Anonymous ~big>

  User                big

  Group                ftp

  AnonRequirePassword on

  MaxClients 10 "The server is full, hosting %m users"

  UserAlias          private big

  UserAlias          upload big

  AllowOverwrite on

  MaxClients          10



  DisplayLogin        welcome.msg

  DisplayFirstChdir  .message



  <Limit WRITE>

    Deny from all

  </Limit>



  <Directory incoming>

    <Limit READ WRITE DIRS STOR CWD CDUP>

    AllowAll

  </Limit>

 </Directory>

</Anonymous>

Any help would be appreciated.

That may be caused by hub bandwidth being shared with other traffic...

Good call, however that isn't the case in this particular situation... I can ftp to an xbox (also on the lan) and upload at ~8-9 megabytes/s.

In addition, I powered down all boxes on the lan except the proftpdbox and my primary workstation (thus ensuring no bandwidth is being used elsewhere) and still I only get transfers up to 2000kb/s.

From the ftp box, could you upload to the xbox to check speed ?
Also I noticed in your proftpd.conf (at the bottom) :

<Limit READ WRITE DIRS STOR CWD CDUP>
AllowAll
</Limit>

Souldn't it be :
<Limit READ WRITE DIRS STOR CWD CDUP>
Allow from All
</Limit>

FTPbox to xbox yields 367602169 bytes sent in 52.7 secs (6.8e+03 Kbytes/sec)

Speed looks OK... also worth mentioning all nics are connected at full duplex... I believe this isolates the problem to a configuration-error in proftpd.

The last few lines you mentioned above don't affect transfer rate... they are limits placed on users (or in this case no limits) as to what commands they are allowed to issue.

Also worth mentioning is I tried changing TransferRate STOR 0 to TransferRate STOR 20, and I successfully lowered my upload cap to 20kb/s. However, when changing it to TransferRate STOR 10000 (setting it to 10mb/s) the speed is still capped at 2000kb/s.