Re: Dropped connections on downloads

Jeremy T. Elston (TechSupport@Greenwood.net)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:51:05 +0000

Greetings Bill Lutton...

Unfortunately, no, the PPP connection is dropped when this occurs.
Very frustrating for our customers.

> From: whl@pageplus.com (Bill Lutton)
> To: "Jeremy T. Elston" <TechSupport@Greenwood.net>
> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: Dropped connections on downloads
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:01:52 GMT
> Reply-to: whl@pageplus.com

> Greetings and Salutations Jeremy, :-)
>
> Connection Reset By Peer is generated when the entity on the
> other side of a socket closes it. In this case it means that the
> FTP server has decided it is tired of talking to the FTP client.
> I've seen this a couple of times when trying to download from
> a very heavily loaded server; I've never seen it when the download
> was clipping along. I don't know of a way that the PM or the
> modems can cause this -- in the cases I've seen it the PPP link
> was still up and working. Is this the case for you?
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:29:20 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >Greetings Bill Lutton...
> >
> > Some of the users are using 3.1, but I will try making a change to
> >some of the 95 users. The error message they typically receive is
> >Connection Reset By Peer. So, of course, they quickly call us and
> >ask us why we kicked them off... :-(
> >
> > I have tried getting a response from USR about any know problems,
> >but have not received a response. Is anyone aware of compatability
> >problems with USR modems? We are using Microcom HDFAST rack at our
> >end.
> >
>
>
>
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