Outbound Transfers die ? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:54:48 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Kurt Schafer shaped the electrons to say...
>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.

I haven't seen this before myself. I have an OR-U and an OR-M at home, and
with either one I can upload and download like a snap. And not only is there
a PM on the other end, but it has to pass through our network routers - all
IRXs - and the gateway to the outside would. So it goes through several
tiers of Livingston boxes before reaching the Internet. In short, I know
this works ok on our boxes if everything is configured ok - so you know this
is a common use.

>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.

Sounds like a routing problem - maybe some kind of loop - or a filter issue
on the Cisco in the middle. Since they can reach the local machines fast
I'd say that removes the PM from the equation as the bottle neck. But since
local machines can go through the Cisco (I presume they take the same path)
then it must be some kind of interaction between the two, or something on
the Cisco pertaining to the PM.

-MZ

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