[Info-vax] FTP sesion against a vms server fails

Thu Aug 6 09:44:38 EDT 2009

Michael Moroney wrote:
> I have also noticed some FTP funniness with VMS (V8.3 Alpha).  On my LAN
> (all systems 100BT), FTP from one PC running XP works, but is very slow.  
> From another PC running XP, it runs at normal speed.  In each case the FTP
> client is the basic simple Windows client (DOS window->ftp).  Since I
> rarely FTP from the "slow" system, I haven't investigated further.

I have seen wrong values for the MTU on various windoze systems causing
slow downs. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit
and Google "windows mtu setting".

Jeff Coffield
http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com