[plug] timeouts on large transfers

[Steve Baker]

Hi,

Firstly, I apologise for my first incomplete message.  I hadn't finished
composing it, and I was going to RTFM before posting, but %$(*#%@ Outlook
Express decided that it would send the message anyway.

wget may work, but the timeout problem happens with HTTP or with FTP
transfers.  If wget can do the equivalent of an FTP restart/resume then it
might work (eventually), but I don't have the wget man page.  Does HTTP
support that?

I was looking in the kernel docs for some TCP timeout type information, but
there wasn't much there apart from driver-specific stuff.  I found a list of
all the /proc/sys/net/ipv4 parameters, but I don't know which ones I need to
look at and don't want to waste time pissing around without a clue.

Any suggestions / advice / etc?  I'm currently using kernel 2.2.14, Apache
1.3.12, Proftpd

Regards,
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Jones" <ajones at harvestroad.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, 1 December 2000 15:50
Subject: Re: [plug] timeouts on large transfers


>
> This is by no means a solution, merely an interim, but could this guy
> in hong kong possibly use 'wget' ?
>
> It sounds like there some link problems somewhere in between if your
> staff don't have a problem.
>
> Steve Baker wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Linux SuSE 6.2 server running in Singapore, and a guy in Hong
Kong
> > wants to get a few large files (4M, 7M, and 20M).  The files are
available
> > on a web server, which he can access, but when he tries to download the
> > files he gets to about the 1M mark then starts getting timeouts.
> >
> > There is also FTP services running on the same box, when he connects and
> > tries to download the file via FTP, he also gets the same problem.  Has
> > quite a bit of tro even connecting in the first place.
> >
> > One of our staff members has used FTP when she dialled in from home
(also in
> > Singapore) and had little trouble connecting or transferring files
(although
> > I don't think any of the files she transferred were that large, anyway
she
> > still has no connection problems).
> >
> > Are there
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve