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From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
Subject: Re: Slow FTP puts
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Ken wrote:
> 
> 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.

Perhaps it is a network problem, networks aren't always asymmetric AFAIK
so try to measure other transfer times between the two computers, like
perhaps an http transfer or something.
 
> Background: client is a Windows 95 machine, path is ethernet 10baseT
> with
> virtually no traffic.

Then again, THIS could be the problem :-) it could also be a FreeBSD
problem, but the odds of that are near zip :-) it could also be a messy
ftp daemon, try wu-ftpd 2.4 or whatever the latest version is.
 
> 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