[Info-vax] Slow FTP transfer Linux -> VMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael D. Ober wrote:
> "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
> news:7fre14F2mj5o9U4 at mid.individual.net...
>> In article <4a9780ef$0$196$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
>> Robin Schipper <"thespriteman <remove_this> writes:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when i try to put a big file (lets say 100 Mb) from a Linux system trugh
>>> FTP on a VMS system, the max speed is 1,5 MB/s
>>> when i try to put the same file from another VMS system (on the same
>>> network) to the VMS box the speed is about 10MB/s (it is a 100Mb 
>>> network)
>>>
>>> does anyone know why the linux box doesn't speed up,
>>
>> Because it's linux.
>>
>>>                                                       and how to 
>>> solve it?
>>
>> Don't use linux.
>>
>> bill
>>
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>> wolves
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>>
> 
> 
> Ahh - finally someone who responds with the same BS as when a Windows 
> user posted similar FTP problems recently.  FTP to one VMS box was slow 
> but to another VMS box it was fast.  The response then was don't use 
> Windows - use any other OS.  This sounds like there is a 
> misconfiguration on the slow VMS box.
> 

ISTR that there are some parameters that you can tinker with.  I don't 
think I've ever had the problem and I'm almost certain that I've never 
needed to tinker with FTP to get reasonable performance.

One of the first things to check is that everyone agrees on the speed 
and duplex settings.  If one end is trying to do full duplex and the 
other expects half duplex. . . .