Laura,

I think you are correct and this is not a firewall problem.

I'd check to make sure the configuration of your router didn't change when 
you replaced hardware (the T-1).  Sometimes during the tuning process a 
router gets configured properly but the configuration doesn't get written 
to flash.  So your working configuration in memory goes away on power down.

Specifically this sounds like a path MTU problem.  The movie files may be 
having issues being fragmented for transport across the WAN.

Liberty for All,

Brian

At 12:05 PM 12/12/2001 -0800, Laura Folden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: Laura Folden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Router problem?
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:12:01 -0500
>
>About two weeks ago, our Video department started having trouble FTP'ing 
>movie and flash files to the website (offsite).  At around that time we 
>had a lightning strike that took out our T1 card, but this was replaced 
>quickly.  We have a failover ISDN, but we cannot upload the files through 
>that.  This is definitely not a firewall problem.
>
>It only happens to those type of files. It only seems dependent on size 
>when it is the movie files; flash files, regardless of size, won't upload 
>at all. The transfer for movie files stalls at about 50%.  There is no 
>filtering and we have had our T1 and router tested. The same files, 
>zipped, run through just fine.  When we remove the *.rm and *.fla 
>extensions, they still stall at the same place.
>
>Our traffic runs at about 30% of the full T UNTIL we start to upload these 
>types of files. Suddenly we run at 100% incoming--not outgoing--traffic.
>
>Sending the files from another location, or to another location, does not 
>help.  Trying it from different computers, using different FTP programs, 
>does not help.
>
>Can this be a DOS attack? Has anyone experienced this?
>
>Thanks!
>Laura Folden

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