Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

2000-03-09 Thread Kirk Grier
Hi Carl - I didn't apparently explain well in the first post - tcpdump is running on the same machine as the ftp client that wedges. Since tcpdump sees and decodes the packets they are getting to the machine - just not to the ftp client, like so; remote ftp server -> DSL circuit -> LM 6.1 box run

Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

2000-03-09 Thread Carl A. Cook
> Carl - no, the ftp transfer hangs happens both as a client and a server. > The tcpdump trace in the original post is with the machine as a client. I meant that particular machine, which served as client in some of your latter tests. You indicated it =doesn't= see packets it should at times. A

Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

2000-03-09 Thread Kirk Grier
Carl - no, the ftp transfer hangs happens both as a client and a server. The tcpdump trace in the original post is with the machine as a client. I thought about it being a NIC issue (or a module / driver NIC issue) but since tcpdump sees the packet(s) isn't the packet being passed up through the

Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

2000-03-09 Thread Carl A. Cook
I had a problem similar to this, and it turned out to be a bad SMC NIC. I say hardware on the client. Does the server machine work OK as client to a public server? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drive

[expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

2000-03-09 Thread kirk . grier
Hi - I recently attempted to transfer a +50MB file over my DSL line to my 6.1 box. The transfer repeatedly hung somewhere after 8MB was transfered. I may get 9MB, I may get 40MB before the hang. The partial file is not resumable once the hang happens. Whereas if I kill the client during the trans