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Date:      Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:59:46 -0500
From:      Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To:        mw@freibergnet.de
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp problems 
Message-ID:  <E0z3jV4-0001nt-00@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980804154527.mw@freibergnet.de> 
References:  <XFMail.980804154527.mw@freibergnet.de>

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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 <mw@freibergnet.de> 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/
> 
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