FTp -- WTF ?!?!

[Net Llama!]

I was referring to something else that moved large amounts of data at a
time.  telnet certainly doesn't, and lprng is kinda hard to measure in
that respect.  What about scp?

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ben Duncan wrote:

> Yup, telnet (Inside a NAT'ed LAN) and lprng all seem to work normally.
>
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > And this behavior is only occuring with ftp, not with any other
> > transp0olrt mechanism?
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ben Duncan wrote:
> >
> >>Ok, I have SuSe 8.2 pretty much running ok on the laptop. This is
> >>a -out-of-the-box SuSe 8.2 Professional.
> >>  Except:
> >>
> >>I have installed ProFtpd and I use inetd instead of xinet.
> >>
> >>ftp'ing TO the laptop and attempting to upload something like a 5K file takes
> >>about 4 seconds on a 100MB ethernet network. A 300 MB directory takes OVER
> >>4 hours.
> >>
> >>Conversely, I can ftp FROM the laptop to my Workstation/Server running SuSe
> >>8.0 modified and the same file is instanous. The 300MB directory comes across
> >>in less than a minute and 30 seconds.
> >>
> >>Any IDEAS on this one ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

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