Re: Outbound Transfers die ?

John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Wed, 04 Sep 1996 06:11:47 -0700

When I worked as an ISP I noticed this as well. At the time our users used
Trumpet Winsock exclusively and we were able to correct the problem by
changing the configuration in Trumpet Winsock to use hardware handshake
(this is a check box under file | setup).

At 10:15 PM 9/3/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I repeatedly probe this list to see if anybody has any ideas as to what
>could be happening to me. Here's another shot.
>
>Users to my system can't seem to upload large files outbound from the local
>network to the internet when connected via dial-up. All our dialup ports are
>through Livingston PM's and 2 USR Netserver/16's.
>
>Folks can download like snot, but when they try to send data outbound
>transfers die after a very short duration. (between 10k and 100k)
>
>I suspect either the packet filtering that our Cisco 2501 is doing or
>something in the PM's. Users who FTP to one of our local machines FIRST and
>then use the local FTP from the Unix box can upload outbound without
>problems however.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>-Kurt
>
>
>

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