From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 4 09:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29012 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 09:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spawn.nectar.com (spawn.nectar.com [204.27.67.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28946 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 09:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Received: from localhost.nectar.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=spawn.nectar.com) by spawn.nectar.com with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0z3jV4-0001nt-00; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:59:46 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: References: Subject: Re: ftp problems To: mw@freibergnet.de cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:59:46 -0500 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Check network equipment. I've seen similar problems with bad CSU/DSUs, for example. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 4 August 1998 at 15:45, Martin Welk wrote: > Hi, > > one of our customers has a wired ftp problem: > > If he tries to put a file to our ftp server that is bigger than 25 KByte > the data gets screwed up. That means, for example, a HTML document contains > some lines of ^@ symbols (using less :-) ) in the text before it goes on > normally. The same happens with other files, and changing between BINARY and > ASCII mode has no effect. He uses passive mode ftp, as he is behind a > firewall (a Novell MPR). Transferring files to another server on our net > works without problems, putting files to another server in another net, too. > > The system is a HP NetServer 5/166 LC (Pentium 166) with 96 MByte RAM, > two SCSI disks (2 and 4 GB), DAT tape, 3x10-Mbit/s-Ethernet and has an > ipfirewall running, as it's routing between those three ethernet cards > (only IP routing). It run's an early 2.2-RELEASE compiled by Joerg Wunsch > with ftpd 6.0, and does everything else absolutely flawless, so we haven't > had a reason to upgrade yet. And other customers do definitely not have > similar problems, even with much larger files. > > The machine is somewhat loaded doing WWW server, SMTP server, DNS, but as we > have currently a 64k link it's never overloaded. > > The destinations to which the transfers worked are an NT 4.0 server (what > a pity!) and a machine running 2.2.6-RELEASE. This machine is located > behind another machine also running 2.2.6 which does routing and firewall. > > HELP! > > I simply don't know how to search anymore. I have recompiled the ftpd from > the 2.2 sources from which our system has been created in March '95 and > reinstalled it, perhaps that will be help, but unfortunately the customer > has a network problem at the moment and can't try it... > > Regards, > > Martin > -- > Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur GbR // Martin Welk > Advertising, Art Design & DTP // network administration > Xlink Point Of Presence Freiberg // phone: (+49|0) 3731 781-387 > Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 // fax: (+49|0) 3731 781-377 > D-09599 Freiberg, Germany // http://www.freibergnet.de/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNccv8jeRhT8JRySpAQFP1AP/eDRqlraLlCUHtHVRuNJJ/bAvBoFfS8vs WXyw+lCzmnO16WhdnQnIjf50A3Xp7H6U7idb7aZWwAB9lL4pTxKeznGIdtF+xPMx eBloa46SDVEh6ByUYnCKwJNBUj+D2XqTw9xdiipW4c1hd4SGrjkTgQ0f2HHtV1l3 C2gYGmf1plE= =Kcpz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message