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Old 05-27-2008
problem while making ftp of a large file

Hi Friends,

I'mfacing a problem while doing ftp of a large file.The control session is getting closed after sometime.But data session transfers the file successfully even when the control seeion is lost.I need to make the control session available as long as data session is active.

How can i do it?
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Old 05-28-2008
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Originally Posted by rprajendran
Hi Friends,

I'mfacing a problem while doing ftp of a large file.The control session is getting closed after sometime.But data session transfers the file successfully even when the control seeion is lost.I need to make the control session available as long as data session is active.

How can i do it?
It sounds like a firewall is chopping off an 'inactive' channel... In that case, just turning on hash printing during the trafnsfer might do it (type hash before starting the copy)
 
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