I would like to turn off the window on my ftp downloads or set the window to a very large size. I have a linux box. Is anyone familiar with how to do this.
thank you
mike
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I would like to turn off the window on my ftp downloads or set the window to a very large size. I have a linux box. Is anyone familiar with how to do this.
thank you
mike
could you be a little more specific?
Lets start with what disto and GUI your useing
I am using the command line interface on redhat linux 6.1
ahhh, so you want to run ftp in the background....
good luck.
if your press <alt>F2 or <alt> and any number, you will move to a different terminal display. So you can start your ftp download, then just switch to a different terminal and not have to wait on your file transfer.
I actually don't want to run ftp in the background. I just want to increase the window size of the tcp session so I don't have to wait so long for the acks. Hopefully this would increase the throughput of my ftp session.
mike
i think the window size depends on each computers ability to talk over the medium. Not always what you want it to be but what the two computers can handle.
try the MaxMTU tweak. this involves changing your MTU, which depends upon what link you are using (dial-up or broadband?). i can't remember exactly how to do this on linux (on windoze you have to do a registry hack or use a program which will do that) but it may involve playing around with ifconfig commants. i'll hunt around for a link to it and post it here.
regards,
mark.
maybe you can take a look at http://dast.nlanr.net/Features/Autobuf/
On the page is said: The client is a modification of the NcFTP Client to enable Auto Tuning to calculate optimal window sizes preceeding file transfer.
good luck!
shr1k3