performance ftp

[Rick Stevens]

Roel Schuiling wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a strange problem with the ftp performance on
> my RHEL3 server. From my laptop to this server the
> speeed is OK. But from the linux server to a backup
> server the speed is very slow. But again: the speed
> from the backup server to the linux server is OK. And
> I don't think that the router is responsible.

There's several possibilities.  Did you throttle back download speeds?
If you're running vsftpd, you can control the download speeds via the
"anon_max_rate" and "local_max_rate" options in the /etc/vsftpd.conf
file.  By default, the values are set to 0 (unlimited), but you may have
them set differently.  Also check the FTP log file to see if anything
untoward is going on.

Also check your routing tables on the server ("netstat -rn") and verify
that they're correct (especially the default gateway).
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