Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:37:24 -0800 From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Clarification re Samba Fw: FTP difficulties 4.8R Message-ID: <001d01c3f40b$e69a10e0$6a7ba8c0@phoenix>
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My last email - read: Most recently, I have been trying to > install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot download > files - aaarrgghhh! What is meant here is that I could not download the ports upgrade tar file. Invariably file transfers from the FreeBSD server (and most others) stall out. graham/ Graham North Vancouver, Canada graham.north@telus.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: FTP difficulties 4.8R > This is my second call for help regarding ftp and network connections - if > anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate some advice. > > I have loaded an older pc with FreeBSD 4.8 to run as a webserver. It is > behind a USR8000A router - the router has DHCP, NAT and firewall enabled. > There is a second pc behind the router which runs WinXP, it operates well > with email, http, it runs an ftp server and client fine (both are > filezilla). I downloaded my FreeBSD ISOs without difficulty... connection > speeds using Filezilla ftp client on XP was 160KB/s (1.6Mbs) which is the > maximum provided by my service - so my lines are okay. > > My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 > with only 48M of memory so I set it up as black screen - command line only. > After the past month of starting to become familiar with the new OS I feel > that most things are beginning to come together - my network connection > really sucks though!! > > It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small > files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new > terminal to kill the process. > This makes it very difficult... Most recently, I have been trying to > install Samba to better network with the Windows machine - I cannot download > files - aaarrgghhh! > Can someone please shed some insight into something that I have done or > neglected to do. Something must be set badly or incompatibly that is > creating these difficulties. This OS is dependent on robust file transfers > for updating and ports etc...HELP! > > My earlier message: > > Help! I am a newbie who has set up a command line FreeBSD system on an XPI > 166 laptop. > Most things seem to work okay except the ftp - I have been struggling with > this on and off for a couple of weeks. To download some packages I ended > up running ncftp and it was able to successfully operate but excruciatingly > slowly (ie 950secs) for a download of about 1MB - I operate on ADSL - go > figure. > > Both the regular and nc ftp packages seem prone to stalling. My latest > problems centre about trying to download some webpage files from another > machine (WinXP) attached to (and behind) a USR router/firewall (yes the > USRobotics firewall is enabled) my Freebsd one is not. The ftp server is > filezilla server on the WinXP machine. I was starting with downloading a > simple webpage to test apache - two files, index.htm and a small (30K) jpeg > image. Index file downloaded quickly, the jpeg stalled after 26K - and > kept on stalling - same place. When I tried using ncftp this time, it > stalled at about 18K. Things are set up well enough that I am able to > connect to and navigate the server from my FreeBSD system. (can connect to > FreeBSD.org server - but stall on downloads) > Clearly there must be some basic setting that is incorrect or incompatible - > perhaps related to my router - but am not too sure. > The only reference which I could find was related to problems with > tcp.recvspace being set at 56K for 4.8, but it seemed to refer to modem > related problems. In any event I was not able to change it. > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Graham/ >
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