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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: sbwait hang?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:03:59 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702190645.RAA10685@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 19, 97 05:15:51 pm
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> The file of death :
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 msmith  users  5133540 Dec 11 09:12 linux_lib-2.3.tar.gz
> 
> No matter how I try to transfer this file, about 4MB (the figure
> varies by a few kB) makes it, and then the transfer stops with both
> ends sleeping on 'sbwait' (I've used ftp, ncftp, fetch, rcp so
> far...).  The same happens with the file coming from a source further
> away (on the other side of the source machine).

[ ... ]

> ANY ideas?  At all? Please?

This was recently discussed on -current, but the file was on a Linux
box.  Make sure TCP extensions are off on both ends; you probably have
broken hardware somewhere in between which is lighting all the bits.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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