On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:28:57AM +0100, "J?rn Andr? Berntzen [Nick: Nor]" wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using Debian with kernel 2.2.19 as a router for my home network doing > 100Mbit inside and cable outside. > > I am using proftpd as a ftp server, but it freezes when I download/upload > locally from my Windows XP machine inside in the house. > It all starts ok, giving me 6000kBytes or so in the beginning, but then the > transfer-rate diminishes > to 0.0Kbytes in a few seconds and Debian freezes every network connection > inside the house. > But when I log into Debian at the machine itself - connection outside seems > ok. > > So I use ifdown -a and ifup -a to get the network up and going again, but > ftpd freezes when I try anew.
It sound like the problem is with the NIC/kernel rather than ftpd. To test, try scp a large file, or http. What NIC do you have, and what driver do you use? I had horrible issues with a bad NIC driver (eepro100 in the kernel-source tree up to 2.4.17), network traffic would often cause hard lock-ups. I got a driver from Intels webbsite, installed it, and never had a problem since.
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