In <<A HREF="msg01856.html">98122908011100.01921@angus</A>>, on 12/29/98 at 07:50 AM, Ken Archer <karcher@idworld.net> said:
From time to time I have experienced downloads that would stall at the 2-60f file stage. I have been watching the mailing lists for over a year and have never seen the subject addressed before. I have been trying to download XFree86-devel-3.3.3-10.i386.rpm and it continuously stalls at 6%. I have tried it from "rufus", redhat, sunsite and others with the same result. I have even tried it with Netscape, ncftp, ftp and xmftp. Is it a problem with the file or is it on my end?
This is a usual symptom of incorrectly configured hardware at your ISP: some switches or routers they use. I am experiencing it now due to poorly compatible/misconfigured ATM equipment my provider is using for traffic management via our main link to the outside world. In theory, things like frame-relaying or traffic shaping should work completely transparent for a user. In real life, using these techniques often causes many network clients to hang or stall. Ftp clients are among the most affected, due to the nature of FTP protocol. Just my $.02, I'm not an expert... Try to lower MTU size if you are using PPP link, this may help. I said 'may'... Cheers, Ivan -- ----------------------------------------------------------- "Ivan Adzhubei" <ivan@protein.bio.msu.su> ----------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>