I have noticed the same thing.. FTP from anything but RH5 is extremely
faster AND more reliable. This is suing both standard FTP and NCFTP
(with and w/o the upgrade). Makes it hell to upgrade everything listed
on the errata page...
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Fung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: Slow FTP -Reply
>I think there is really some problem with ftp in Red Hat 5.0. I have
an old
>version Slackware (Kernal 1.1.59) Linux box as well as RH 5.0 box on
the LAN.
>Previously, we forwarded all Corporate Internet E-mail traffic to the
>Slackware box for transmission so as to relieve the Netware Server
workload.
>Recently, we have re-directed all those traffic to the RH5.0 box, and
then
>found that there generated a long queue running up on the Netware
Server.
>
>Before reading these E-mails, I thought my case was just occassional
and
>isolated one. But now, I do make some benchmarks for ftp between the
two Linux
>boxes and also from Win95. The result is interesting :
>
> GET (KB/second) PUT (KB/second)
>SL ftp to RHL 840 / 860 / 870 22 / 22 / 21
>RHL ftp to SL 19 / 19 / 21 790 / 840 / 900
>W95 ftp to RHL 698 / 1094 / 994 2.07 / 2.09 / 2.09
>W95 ftp to SL 542 / 497 / 520 852 / 800 / 443
>
>The RH 5.0 box is already far more superior in hardware configuration
(P200 /
>64 MB / 4.3 GB) than the Slackware Linux box (486@133 / 32 MB / 1.3
GB).
>
>Can anyone explain why RH5.0 runs so consistently slow during ftp
inward ?
>
>Regards,
>Raymond.
>
>>>> Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/10 9:46 am >>>
>On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ambrose 'Bo' Barry wrote:
>
>> I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at
28.8!) on my
>> Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet
LAN cards.
>
>>
>> It took just as long on the Ethernet LAN to transfer! (about 3000
>> bytes/sec). Only two LAN cards on the LAN, total cable length of 10
feet! I
>> was using the FTP Explorer program on the Win95 computer.
>>
>> Any help at getting my Ethernet to run at Ethernet speeds will be
>appreciated.
>
>Run Linux on both ends. 8-)
>
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