First of all, have you upgraded to ppp-2.3.7? Without any specific
evidence, I get the impression from a couple of messages I've seen
that it clears up a bit of flakiness.
Can we safely assume that you're not doing demand dialing? If you
are, turn it off for the purposes of the following tests.
Well, you covered a lot of my ideas. At this point it might be nice
to diagnose whether the problem is associated with the data itself or
not. Reboot. Start ppp, using the 'kdebug 7' option. Do nothing
except start the ftp (don't use Netscape). When it stalls, pop open
another console window and store the output of 'netstat -tna'. Repeat
the entire process again. Is the information logged the same? No,
you shouldn't post 8M of debug logs! 'kdebug 7' will log every single
byte of information that comes in or goes out. It can be a bit
confusing since packets can arrive in various orders. The reboot is
key--it clears any lingering sockets. A more compact way may be to
use tcpdump instead, but it doesn't give as precise the information
either.
If it successfully downloads when you reboot and immediately ftp
without doing anything else, let me know and I'll give you something
to try (it's never done anything for anyone but me, but who knows). I
had a somewhat similar problem a while back.
If netstat reported anything other than listening on sockets and the
two established FTP connections (their state should be ESTABLISHED),
post the results.
-Scott Berg
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