WOW! Thanks Civileme!
That's the best explaination of what's going on here at my
place. I have had the same experiences here. I use D4X and
a USR modem, but knew nothing of "anti-spoofing software" or
the port 139 business. The note about the hardware timing was
also great. It's neat to learn the "why" behind this stuff. I
have been doing all this simply because it "works" but never
really knowing the nuts and bolts of the operation. I'll continue
to "lurk and learn".
vern
Civileme wrote:
>
> If it were happening in windows as well, I would tend to blame
> the modem's catching an "exploit string", that is a specific
> string script kiddies use to punt many people from online
> services by hanging the modem. The string doesn't work against
> USR modems with TI chipsets or older Hayes ISA v.90s but hits
> most others rather well.
>
> I have DLed files up to 282Mb using 7.0 with 2.2.14, so I would
> tend to discount the idea that the kernel needs patching.
> Netscape occasionally hangs at 100% Dl when working through a
> firewall and saving to an NFS share, but I don't DL with Netscape
> any longer. One question, does your ISP run NT servers with
> "anti-spoofing software?" Some of that will hang you up if it
> doesn't see periodic (per quota) responses from port 139, and of
> course linux doesn't supply it.
>
> My first advice though is to get a really good DL program. Try
> this one:
>
> http://server51.freshmeat.net/download/1194/nt-1.16.tar.gz
>
> D4X is designed to download against almost anything, and it will
> pick up a broken DL and in fact blow by hangups by taking what it
> has and reconnecting/resuming.
>
> Now on to the other possibilities. Your hardware is subjected to
> less leeway from specs by Pentium (vs 386) code. Its timing has
> to be much closer to spec. This is not an issue to be dismissed
> lightly.
>
> If you can DL in windows, then get that tarball and just move it
> to the ext2 filesystem from linux and try it. It is 386 code and
> will lessen the stress on your system (though the 586 drivers
> will still have tighter timing requirements).
>
> Civileme
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