[Klug-general] Slow FTP in SuSE9.0

[Stuart Buckland]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 11:52 +0000, 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,
> 
> 
> 

With regard to IPv6...

You should only experience problems if the server supports IPv6, has a
DNS entry for its IPv6 address, your client is also IPv6 enabled but the
routing isn't properly setup (thus it's enabled but doesn't work) and
the ftp client software you are using is obtaining the IPv6 address of
the server from DNS and trying to use that prior to falling back to
IPv4.


Stu

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Stuart Buckland <stuart at nightime.org.uk>