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Re: IP Masquerading: No good for FTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Mon Sep 30 19:40:49 1996
From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: mike@conexio.co.za (Mike Kilburn)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:51:15 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: rsteffen@ia.net, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960929181619.19072A-100000@devel.conexio.co.za> from "Mike Kilburn" at Sep 29, 96 06:19:19 pm
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
According to Mike Kilburn:
> > can't transfer more than 1.5MB over a 28.8 PPP line without losing the
> > having ftp hang after the transfer. (Big problem for things like netscape,
> > that delete the downloaded file in this case.) You have to extend the tcp
>
> When I had this problem I found that killing Netscape, instead of
> closing it, would preserve the file just fine.
Always a hard link to a file while you have made the mistake to do
an FTP using Netscape (sometimes it happens after clicking on something
and it turns out to be big)
Just do "ln downloadfile safeguardfile" and when Netscape decides it
is time to unlink the file, you still have the second link and can then
do a proper job using "ftp" and the "reget" command to finish the
transfer.
(this advise is really independent from using masquerading; it is a good
idea in all transfers of large files using Netscape FTP)
Rob
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