Howdy all,

I've had some issues with ftp on 6.0 recently as well.  We have a
989/250 with 2gb memory, PP2 and ftpfdp3a, and have sessions unable
to ftp from hp9000s at times.  We've upped the tcp connections to
4096 in an attempt to resolve the problem.  Not sure yet if it's
worked.

Scott
>
> Just a side note to this we also run on an HP3000 959/100 with 1.25 gb
> memory on MPE/iX 6.0 PP2:
>
> I have also noticed this problem infrequently happening when one of our PC
> program FTP's to and from
> the HP3000 box.  Our solution has been taking down the Inetd and restarting
> it.  I have not dug into why this
> happens as we do this only once or twice a day and we only have this problem
> about once or twice a month.
> Most of our FTP processes are run by the HP3000 using "Run FTP.ARPA.SYS"
> program - this never has a problem.
> The problem with FTP only occurs with an outside PC using the Inetd
> services.
>
> I had been told in the past that this it might be a problem with our HP and
> our PC's being on two different segments
> of the network or routers or firewalls, with such a broad answer - and not
> having that many problems we are living with it.
>
> So if you track it down to a specific scenario I would love to hear about
> it.
>
> Thank you,
> Cat
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Beghein Johan
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:16 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FTP problem
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have some trouble transfering files between HP3000 and HP9000.
>
> Sometimes, when the HP9000 tries to send a file to the HP3000, the clients
> hangs when doing a dir command, and we have to kill the process.
>
> When this happens and if I want to send a file to the HP9000, I may
> encounter folowing errors:
>
> - host is down
> - cannot build data connection
> - ...
>
> The only way to clear this problems is to stop the inetd deamon on the
> HP3000 side, and stream it again, and then it works again for a while, on
> both directions.
>
> I just installed patch FTPFDP3A, but the problem still exists.
>
> Does anybody have the same problem, and found  a solution ?
>
> Is it possible to do a 'rcp' from the HP9000 to the HP3000, as a workaround
> ?
>
> Thank You.
>
> Beghein Johan.
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