Re: v3.1.36: NO ACK with TCP/IP???

David Williams (djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 11 May 1997 16:11:47 +0100


In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970511005142.1638A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver
.co.us>, Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> writes
>On Sun, 11 May 1997, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
>> There is a problem with TCP/IP (or ppp):
>>
>> Everytime I connect to ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu
>> (and some other sites...) the connection
>> and login itsself works fine.
>>
>> But any attempt to transfer data (even "ls")
>> fails. The modem shows some transfers, then
>> the transfer stops. Nothing more happens.
>>
>> The line is dead.
>will be exceeded before it will do that. To test this, try to create some
>additional unrelated traffic between your box and anything behind PPP
>connection (say, ping the other end of PPP line). If that fixes the
>problem, modem configuration will be the first thing to check -- ping
>doesn't interfere with TCP.
>

I can ping the site that I am trying to ftp from but the ls
still does not come back. ifconfig -a shows the TX and RX values
slowly increasing on that interface (about +1 on each per second or
so.)

>
>--
>Alex
>

-- 
David Williams