[Klug-general] Slow FTP in SuSE9.0

[Karl Lattimer]

Kevin Groves wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here's a strange one....
>
> FTP to a particular server from a SuSE9.0 box transfer at 35kb/s! On 
> two of my SuSE8.0 boxes i get over 100kb/s.
>
> I've ploughed through pages of Googles and found that there is mention 
> of the ipv6 slowing things down under this version. Now the module is 
> loaded on all three boxes although they could be differnt versions. 
> I'm going to try and switch off ipv6 on the 9.0 box and see what happens.
>
> In the meantime any other ideas?
>
> Cheers
> Kev,
>
>
>
Oh yer, you could try vsftp, as far as i know redhat switched to using 
this in RHEL3 and FC2 because wuftpd is riddled with buffer overflows 
and race conditions. vsftpd is the VERY secure ftpd, it is 100% IPv6 so 
you shouldn't have any probs.