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Message-ID: <3390808D.1A6563E6@magibox.net> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:48:30 -0500 From: Ken <welk@magibox.net> Reply-To: welk@mem.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow FTP puts X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <338F0B62.62271A2F@magibox.net> <EB0uAI.HE7@nonexistent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.50.183.98 Lines: 82 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!chaos.magibox.net!207.50.183.98 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41978 Thanks Nathan, you are probably right on with your diagnosis. I, too, was inclined to be suspicious of the network, though I really didn't want to believe it. Additional evidence sure points that way. While http gets issued to the server work fine, the bulk of the data is still going in the "good" direction, from the FreeBSD server to the client. And there have been no apparent problems with the requests issued from the client getting to the server,but those, of course, consist of far less data. Further evidence: using the same client machine and same client machine ftp software, uploads thorough a dial-up connection to the net and to the same FreeBSD machine seem to provide good throughput. The final part of that route goes over the same network (ISDN -> 10BaseT -> FreeBSD Server, but obviously not over the same concentrator port, not the same cable, and the NIC in the client isn't being used. More testing and more thinking (yikes) ahead. Ken welk@mem.net Nathan Dorfman wrote: > 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