Subject: Re: ftp: put slower then get?
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/24/1997 17:35:34
Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Did anybody else notice that put is about half the speed of get when
> >doing ftp transfers? I see this on my pc532 as well as on an i386 box.
> >Both are running 1.2C. I have appended a transcript of a ftp session
> >done on an i486DX4. Does anyone know what's the reason for this?
> 
> It's not limited to NetBSD ... I've seen this on many other systems.
> 
> Although, oddly enough, if you use an ftp client that supports passive mode,
> this goes away.

Not in this case. I just tried it (the NetBSD client supports passive mode)
and got the same results.

Matthias
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