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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:16:18 -0500
From: Ken <welk@magibox.net>
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Here's the essence of the problem: FTP puts to the FreeBSD 2.1.7.1
server are
extremely slow, slow enough to be considered failed. For example, a 6k
file
taking about 20 minutes (yes, minutes) to upload (ASCII mode).
Sometimes, if
I wait long enough, the file is transferred, indicating that
file/directory
 permissions are okay. FTP gets from the same client to the same server
over the same network are fine.

Background: client is a Windows 95 machine, path is ethernet 10baseT
with
virtually no traffic.

On a 9206 byte file I just uploaded, here's what I got. It took over 30
minutes from the "put" was started until "Transfer complete" was
displayed.
 The transfer time reported at that point by the ftp client was
9346 bytes in 101.23 seconds.
Doing a status on the ftp client immediately following the transfer
shows:
Type: ascii; Verbose: On; Bell: Off; Prompting: On; Globbing: On

Unfortunately, I don't have sufficient knowledge of FreeBSD or FTP to
attempt to diagnose the problems except superficially.

Suggestions as to the problem or guidance in troubleshooting it are
appreciated.

Thanks.

Ken
welk@mem.net