Sounds familiar; we had a client that was doing FTP transfer into and
out of our "DMZ" from a MVS system and would randomly get sessions
resets. Firewall folks said that the FTP sessions were getting their
ports shifted into ranges that the Firewall considered hacker attacks
and shut them down. Firewall folks had to make some changes (kicking and
screaming about security) to make sure the ports were not denied.

Been some months ago, and not sure if it was our firewall around our
"DMZ" or the client's firewall around their system. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gowans, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTP Failures to Linux Guest

We have a customer who's transferring approximately 200 files nightly
from
an OS/390 2.10 guest to a RedHat Linux 7.2 at the 2.4.9-38 kernel level.
The files vary in size but are generally always smaller than 600k.  The
FTP
process fails 99% of the time after transferring anywhere from 20  to
150 of
the files.  We can recreate the problem on another Linux guest running
the
same version of RedHat.  We can successfully transfer the files from the
OS/390 system to other OS/390 systems as well as to Windows based PC
platforms - all of which complete successfully.  The only difference is
the
Linux guest is in the DMZ while the other S390 systems and the PC's
we've
tested to are in our Intranet.

When it fails the only message we see is from the OS/390 side which
indicates the session has reset.

Any ideas on how to determine what's going on when transferring to the
Linux
guest that may be causing the session to fail?

Chuck Gowans
USDA - Nat'l IT Center


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