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Old 03-05-2004, 02:59 PM   #1
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Odd FTP problem


I've been having a really strange problem for several months, and am posting on the offchance someone has some fresh ideas.

A company hosts a website on an IIS box (grr, boo, hiss hiss) and I ftp the access logs to my linux box where I can parse and generate some reports.

If I use NCFTP, FTP, NCFTPGET or any other ftp client, I can connect fine and navigate the directories and start a download. But after 60K or so, the download just freezes. The AvgSpeed keeps getting smaller, the timer keeps ticking, but the transfer just doesn't progress. If I ctrl-C it, I can initiate the transfer again, and it continues on. Sometimes I have to do this 5+ times to finish a 5 meg file.

Now first thing you think is it's firewalls, or the VPN tunnel - but the catch is, the transfers never fail if I use FTP from a Windows machine.

Anyone have any ideas at all? I've tried it on Redhat 7.3 and a Solaris 2.6 machine, both different versions of NCFTP.

Thanks!

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Old 03-05-2004, 03:03 PM   #2
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First thing that comes to mind: Did you try forcing passive/active mode (client side)?

I had the opposite problem. Sollution was to force the windows ftp client to passive mode.
 
Old 03-05-2004, 03:09 PM   #3
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Yah I've hit that problem before too and we've tried both (now, whether the command line flag for forcing it is working right or not, is another question). I'll try again to confirm (I checked my windows ftp client, and PASV is not checked).

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