I've run into this twice. Once it was an MTU problem on a dial up connection. The second time I replaced my LAN card (for my Cable modem) with another identical one and the problem disappeared. -JMS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] No more long downloads I am not sure where it started, somewhere during my upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, but I can no longer download long files without problems. It seems that no matter what ftp or http site I connect to, if I download a file that is in the neighborhood of 4 meg or larger, the download will proceed to 99/100% complete and then stall. There will be no clean termination. It prevents me from being able to do batch downloads because any file in the large size-range will prevent subsequent downloads. It doesn't appear to matter whether the app is KDE or gnome or x-based. Using ncftp, ftp, konqueror, netscape, gftp, etc, etc, all refuse to cleanly end a long download. Right now I am trying to batch download the kde-2.1 rpms at nebsllc.com. I have to manually kill each stalled download (NEVER use cancel button or you lose the download - killing the particular download with the "x" in the corner always preserves the downloaded file which, inspite of the "stall" is perfectly OK and will install or untar, etc...there is nothing wrong with the files). I am now having to kill the download of kde-multimedia because it has stalled at 99% and is 5.7 megs in size. I will be able to install it via rpm without hitch, however, but must restart the download process in order to get the rest AND I HAVE TO BABYSIT THE COMPUTER OR IT WILL NEVER MAKE IT BECAUSE OF THE CONSTANT STALLING FOR NO REASON. Does ANYONE have an idea why this is happening? I was thinking for a while that there was some protocol change or is a problem in new kernels or...I don't know. All I know is that since going beyond RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 7.0, large file downloads stall even though they are, in reality, TOTALLY 100% downloaded - the connection or negotiation to terminate the particular download doesn't complete and a manual kill is required. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain --- praedor
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