Re: Slow FTP transfers

[Farrukh Haroon <farrukhharoon () gmail com>]

Your problem could be due to your firewall blocking the IDENT protocol

Have a look at this link:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094317.shtml

It could also be related to PTR records for your DIP Pool (but highly
unlikely):

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094459.shtml

Regards

Farrukh

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Francois Yang <francois.y () gmail com> wrote:

> I've seen slow traffic due to the firewall trying to do many things
> like checking for viruses, packet anomalies, etc...
> Maybe there's some checks that works better or worst depending if the
> ftp session is passive or not.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Behm, Jeff<jbehm () burnsmcd com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:19 PM, sky said:
> >
> > > I'm having an issue when ftp'ing (default port mode) large file
> > > (50megs) to a remote server sitting behind FWSM. The transfer
> > > gets real slow and at times just timeouts.
> >
> > > Any thoughts will be great.
> >
> > Any sort of packet shaper/QoS device between the endpoints?
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