ftp-downloads from any browser stops after 2h

S R bortrsr at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 11 01:41:11 PDT 2005


Hi :)

This is probably a quite advanced problem cause I have
asked around a lot. Most people have adviced me to
post this interresting question here.

Setup: 
FreeBSD 5.4 server behind a D-Link DI-604 router
together with two XP-machines. Server runs Fluxbox in
Xvnc and Samba. 
0.5Mb ADSL-connections, not PPPoE.

Problem: 
If I try to download a larger file from ftp (for
example a game-demo from gamershell or fragzone) with
a browser, it just stops after approximately 130
minutes.
No errors, nothing in /var/log/messages. Doesn't
matter what speed I download with, its around 130
minutes anyway.
Regular http-downloads works, and ALL downloads works
from the both XP-machines.
ftp from the terminal works, both from VNC and from a
normal ssh-login without VNC. Problem is some links
cant be reached with the terminal ftp, so would be
great if the browsers could start working.

I have tried:
Switching ports on the router.
Two different NIC's (Realtek and Intel 10/100 PRO).
Mozilla and newest Firefox and newest Opera.
Tried both Fluxbox and KDE.
Just noticed that Opera actually lets me resume the
download, so at least its useable, but would like to
solve this anyway, and kind of interrested what the
problem could possibly be.

All installs are build from Ports, and they're all
pretty standard installations (like the whole system)
since I'm a real BSD n00b.

This is the outcome of ifconfig for my Intel-NIC.
-----------------------------------------------
fxp0:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::203:47ff:fead:695f%fxp0 prefixlen
64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
192.168.0.255
        ether 00:03:47:ad:69:5f
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex> )
        status: active
-----------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot if anyone can help me discover why I cant
download ftp from the browsers, when it works from the
terminals ftp-command. Beats me, and everyone else I
asked on BSD-forums all around.

Best regards
/Sebastian (from Sweden)


		
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