>
> This one has been puzzling me for a couple of days. I thought I would post
> the problem here, see if somebody would point out an obvious solution,
> before giving Livington's tech support a call.. :)
>
> We have a remote office, being routed a 30 host subnet of a classC. They
> dialup with a Livingston OR-HS utilizing a 33.6K modem. The modem connects
> to an identical one in our NOC, which is connected to a PM-2e... Everything
> works great, except, when a user on one of the machines FTP's across the
> network, the link randomly ceases to function.
>
> The modems are still connected, the routes are still active on either side
> of the link, but no traffic gets across. The even stranger part is this
> only happens with this one machine, and with one particular program,
> (WS_FTP lite I believe). Using the WS_FTP program, there seems to be about
> a 75% chance that the network link will go south. Using the Win95 command
> line FTP client there is no lockup, the network continues along happily.
>
> Oh course, the obvious solution would be to tell them not to use WS_FTP, but
> that seems rather the kludged solution... :)
>
> Anybody have any ideas what may be going on there? :)
Probably the WS_Ftp is somehow sending a string of characters that drops
the modem into command mode. you know +++ and never gets reset to data
mode.
Just a thought.
-- Aloha,Sherwood