Re: Is anyone having FTP problems from space.mit.edu?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:59:12 +0100,
Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> 
> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm having FTP problems trying to download anything from space.mit.edu
> > to my linux box.  I noticed this during my recent attempts to download
> > slang2, although it seems to happen with anything else on the
> > space.mit.edu site, as well.  I get anywhere from 400,000 to 660,000
> > bytes, and then the transfer just hangs forever.
> 
> Yes, I had the same problem with stock Debian kernels 2.6.8 and 2.6.9,
> whereas I could fetch from space.mit.edu with kernel 2.6.7. My setup for
> the three kernels is absolutely identical, so I surmise that it might be
> something that has broken between kernels 2.6.7 and 2.6.8, possibly in
> the driver module for my NIC. It is only a wild guess, though, but the
> problem persisted even if I disabled and cleared my firewall completely,
> so therefore I would not suspect iptables to be the culprit. I am using
> the 8139too module for my NIC. What module are you using?

Yes, I believe that I'm also using that same module.  And I just
upgraded to 2.6.9 from 2.6.8 (Fedora Core 2).  I don't know whether it
worked or not with my 2.6.8 kernel, but aat least now I know what the
problem is likely to be.

Thanks a lot!


> Morten

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