Hello Tony,

RE: FTP between two HP3Ks occasionally stalling

>>> When there is a glitch on the network between our two HPs then any
attempt
>>> to FTP between these two servers causes the FTP.ARPA.SYS
<FTP.ARPA.SYS>
>>> program to stall.  (I have to either CTL-BREAK the program or abort
the
>>> background job that was attempting to run the FTP program).

You did not mention the O.S. version or FTP version for both of the
systems.

General Release patches:

FTPHD71 for C.75.00
FTPHD47 for C.70.00
FTPHD66 for C.65.00

Two important fixes that *may* be related to your problem?

  SR: 8606299250
FTP Performance improvements for >4Gb file transfers

  SR: 8606-267935
59 sec timeout waiting on reply from Remote Host

Regards,

James Hofmeister
Email: <first>.<last>@hp.com
Hewlett Packard - Global Solutions Engineering (WTEC)
P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.

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