Any FTP or rsync transfer drops network connection

spoovy · 04-23-2011, 04:47 AM

I'm using Scientific Linux on a laptop, connecting to a debian server on my LAN via a basic BT HomeHub router. When starting a file transfer with ftp or rsync from the laptop my connection is dropped, every time, after a couple of seconds. I have to reset my network adaptor and restart my network manager (wicd in this case) in order to get network connectivity back.

I had a very similar problem before -
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ection-863546/

On this occasion my workaround was to replace NetworkManager with yast. I am now using SL though so no yast available, and I am not using NetworkManager any more anyway.

Any ideas what could be causing this anyone?

Thanks in advance

spoov

spoovy · 04-23-2011, 06:30 AM

Weirdly this seems to have been solved by using NetworkManager in preference to wicd.

Very strange.

onebuck · 04-23-2011, 07:59 AM

Hi,

Which version of 'wicd'?

spoovy · 04-23-2011, 11:33 AM

1.7.0