Sounds to me like you might have a duplex mis-match. I've seen this elsewhere where one end is talking full-duplex & the other is half-duplex. The network is up and seems ok for pings, etc, but FTP file transfers take so hideously long that you might as well have put it on tape and carried it over to its destination. A slow FTP is a dead givaway for this. It may not be your problem, but check it out anyway. John -----Original Message----- From: Christopher D. Reimer [mailto:creimer@rahul.net] Sent: 27 January 2001 19:41 To: suse-linux-e@ns2.SuSE.com Subject: [SLE] Network dies under file transfer... Greetings! If I transfer 150MB+ of files from Windows 98 machine to my file server using Samba, the network on the file server will occasionally die and a reboot is needed to restart the network. I always thought this was a Windows/Samba problem. When I transfer 150MB+ using FTP, the network will most definitely die. Anybody know what this could be? I'm using a SuSE 6.3 distribution, the standard 2.2.18 kernel with the 0.90 RAID and 3.5.29 ReiserFS patches, on a Cyrix M2 PR-333MHz, 64MB, MVP4 motherboard, and a Netgear FA310TX (tulip) NIC. Most of the network options are off in the standard kernel, and I only have a few turned on that are directly relevant to this particular machine. (It's a file server, not a router.) Thanks! Christopher Reimer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq