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From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP or TCPIP problems (2.2-BETA)
Date: 28 Dec 96 23:42:18 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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waldorfm@rferl.org writes:
>This is follow up on my previous message subject "FTP
>installation (2.2-BETA). I still haven't received any
>respond - well holidays, weekends, new year... that's
>ok.
>I was able to install the X-Developer system of 2.2-BETA
>from a DOS partition, since FTP didn't work properly.
>BTW: XWindows didn't start up during installation, but
>that's a different story. Anyway I have done some
>further testing on FTP. This time I tried to transfer
>files using the FTP daemon of the FreeBSD system. Same
>result, the connections randomly get disconnected. Error
>on the client site: Connection reset by server. Since
>this is happening with FTP and FTPD under FreeBSD I
>suppose something is wrong with the FTP or TCP/IP
>implementation. Just to verify the problem is really
>under FreeBSD I've set up my Macintosh as a FTP server
>and transfered a whole bunch of files from Windows95
>(same machine where FreeBSD is installed) and had no
>problems. Using Windows95 as the FTP server also worked
>without a problem.
It sounds greatly like someone else on your net is using the same IP address
that you are to do the installs. I've now installed 2.2-BETA in five places, 3
done with passive FTP and 2 with FTP and all work peachy keen..
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
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