I currently have 3 machines sharing a DSL connection
1 Macintosh with own IP
1 OpenBSD with own IP
1 Win98 NAT through OpenBSD
Connected with Bay Networks hubs (2, 8 port hubs with MDI-X)
I haven't had any real troubles to speak of, but recently, a friend asked me to FTP some files over (=100MB or so).
I start off well with a connection of 150kbps or greater. Then, I can't get through more than 1 or 2 files before the process stalls. This is happening over and over again, last night and this morning. It happens on WS_FTP (pc), Fetch (mac), and good ol' FTP (openbsd).
What causes the FTP process to stall? Is it caused by collisions on my hubs? Would it be alleviated with a switch? Is there something else I should be looking for?
1 Macintosh with own IP
1 OpenBSD with own IP
1 Win98 NAT through OpenBSD
Connected with Bay Networks hubs (2, 8 port hubs with MDI-X)
I haven't had any real troubles to speak of, but recently, a friend asked me to FTP some files over (=100MB or so).
I start off well with a connection of 150kbps or greater. Then, I can't get through more than 1 or 2 files before the process stalls. This is happening over and over again, last night and this morning. It happens on WS_FTP (pc), Fetch (mac), and good ol' FTP (openbsd).
What causes the FTP process to stall? Is it caused by collisions on my hubs? Would it be alleviated with a switch? Is there something else I should be looking for?
