Rick Tomlinson wrote:

> We have a job on our 979 (running 6.0 pp1) that opens an FTP session to
> a unix box, and sequentially puts files over there.  The FTP session
> sends 30 files that range in size from 400 bytes to 73 mbytes, and takes
> about 15 minutes when successful (for all files).  About 50% of the
> time, the FTP session will time-out and the rest of the files will not
> be sent over.  When this happens, I can rerun the same job and it often
> works.  When it times-out, it doesn't always hang on the same file.  Is
> there a config setting somewhere on the HP that may need adjustment?  Is
> this a problem with our network?  Any comments welcome!

there's a multitude of possibilities...but do you have checksumming turned
on?  (netxport.gprot.tcp).  if you don't (and you probably don't since it's
the default), try turning it on.  it'll require and stop/restart of your
network.                    - d

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