Our filers have been fairly stable recently but last week one of them panicked and I thought this would be a good chance to try uploading the core dump to the wonderful new ftp site.
I am dismayed to find that it is no better. (I assume that it's still called ftp.netapp.com (216.35.154.14)). I am getting a transfer rate of under 16Kb/sec, and I'm just retrying it as the first attempt failed with a timeout. As a comparison, I get about 10 times this rate downloading a large file from gatekeeper.dec.com.
I don't understand why a company that makes high performance file servers seems to have so much trouble providing a decent ftp service - it's not exactly rocket science.
Dave Atkin
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Nguyen, Alan wrote:
After about a month and a half of testing with customers likeyourself, Network Appliance has a new FTP site. The new FTP site will be available for all of our customer's use beginning tomorrow (2/2/2000) at 6PM PST. The transition from the current FTP site to the new will be transparent and the FTP site will not have any downtime. Please read below for more details regarding architecture.
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