Edward Schernau wrote:
> I have 2 machines, one running Linux with IP Masquerading, and it
> is connected to the Net via DSL. The other machine sits on an internal
> network.
>
> Whenever I download massive files (ISO images) - we're talking hours
> here - the download "meter" will reach 99%, but the download never
> seems to finish - the files are there on disk, but usually not 100%
> complete. Clicking Cancel causes Netscape (in Win2000 at least) to
> quit the download, and wipe out whatever it had already downloaded.
> (Annoying)
>
> I'm using the ip_masq_ftp module, which I assumed took care of
> monitoring both the data and control channels. Apparently not.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? If ip_masq_ftp DOESNT do this, any reason
> to a) use it? or b) is there something that WILL handle this?
I see this all the time in netscape. Both in Windows and in Linux. When
netscape does its thing most of the time you can go back to the same page
and try the down load again and netscape will try to pickup where it left
off. It takes a while for a >600MB iso but WAY faster than doing it
again. All this assumes you did not have to kill netscape in the
meantime. It creates a tempfile for the download until it completes and
then renames it once it is done. This works most of the time for me
although I have zero WIN2000 experience so YMMV.
Or you can use another (real) ftp client to do the downloads. WS FTP is
one I have used in windows but again not 2000. I use ncftp in linux with
good success since it will restart/continue an interrupted download. If
it would only give me a non-interactive option to get all the files in a
directory that do not exist I would be in heaven. I use gftp for that:)
HTH
Bret
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