From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 8:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.104.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D029214FE9 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost) by Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA01090; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:34:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) X-Authentication-Warning: Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:34:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: Brian Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp problems in FBSD 3.2 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Brian wrote: > Apologies for a router lesson here.. On the contrary... thank you. > > Ok, the nitty gritty. Are you the network person there? no, but it is a friend of mine. > I have seen > this when a Cisco, which uses keepalive by default, tries to send an > ipcp config request to the router on the other end, that is usually not a > Cisco. The classic symptom of this is you start a download, then after a > couple minutes, things start to slow down, then die for about 3-4 minutes. > All is well after that. If that is what is occurring, you could try > looking at the router interface while someone else downloads. Does it > blink as if resetting? The fix to try is this on a Cisco.. ok. interface is blinking. > > First, do a show running or show config, and look at the config for the > serial interface that connects to the csu. Does it say no keepalive? If > not, try the below. This is not recommended for frame relay circuits, > they depend on keepalive for staying up. > > conf t > int interface name > no keepalive > ctrl z > Then test to see fi things improve. > > If so, then write mem on the Cisco Thank you Brian, it is better now. I think there was also a problem with an old tranceiver in the back of the router. I have not noticed it but it has a lot of collitions. Thank you, the problem seems to be solved. > > Brian > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Brian wrote: > > > > > Potential problem; the circuit could be so bust with transferring your > > > data that something called keepalive is failing. 1 of the routers will > > > reset the connection at that point. > > > > > > Bri > > > > Thank you Brian. Then, what am I supposed to do? > > Do I have to change something in my router configuration? > > Do I have to change something in my computer ? > > Perhaps something to transfer data in a lower rate? > > > > > > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello there, > > > > > > > > I have a FreeBSD 3.2 box with a 3com 509 ethernet card in my office and I > > > > have been having problems with FTP. Particularly when I transfer very > > > > large files (5Mb or more). My poor machine begins to slow down its > > > > transfers through the network... ping becomes a real turtle... telnet a > > > > snail... and suddenly all network activies stop... > > > > > > > > Do you have any idea of what is going wrong? > > > > > > Eduardo Viruena > > eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx > > > > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message