Re: FTP Masquerading - unable to finish ftp transfer

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:15:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Rok Papez wrote:

>I have a Linux server. The server has a modem it connects my private
>LAN (192.168.1.x) to the internet thru IpMasquerading.
>
>I have recently upgraded the server from RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel)
>to RedHat 6.0 (2.2.12 kernel). From upgrade on I experiance a problem that
>*seems* to be related to masquerading.
>
>I open a few ftp connection to *one* ftp server. If files are small there is no
>problem, but with larger files at one moment one of the transfers never
>finishes (Netscape - same is with NcFTP - keeps it stuck at 100% and it never
>finishes). After one tansfer never finishes, *no* transfer finishes.
>If I stop all transfers and reconnect later, everything is OK, until another
>transfers hangs at 100%.
>
>I didn't have this kind of problems with 2.0.36 kernel.

Is your 2.2.12 kernel patched with the bug fixes? If not, you
might want to upgrade to a patched kernel.

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