eznoh <eznoh.30mi48@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:
>The login process FTP thru a WRT150N to remote servers is quite slow,
>around 10 seconds. After that transfers go rapidly in both directions.
>It was suggested that I set a "Port Triggering Range" for FTP but it did
>not help. After I noticed that the delay seemed to be servers associated
>with a specific ISP, I contacted them and got this reply: The delay is
>due to the IDENT/AUTH request that comes from the FTP server when you
>connect. It is a server-dependent setting and is fairly common and
>applies to other services as well (i.e. SMTP, and even POP3/IMAP).. The
>good thing is it is usually easy to set up your router to send back a
>"reset" message (i.e. block the connection and send back a notice vs.
>silently block) when the request comes in. That will allow the
>IDENT/AUTH to happen quickly (almost instantaneous). I don't see
>anything about this in the admin page.
Your ISP should not be using IDENT as most router manufactuers and
users consider it a security problem. It's really the ISP's problem
on their ftp server or router configuration. See:
<http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/2.pdf>
as an example. Contrary to what your ISP claims, it is NOT common to
use IDENT for ftp and other services. If you sniff the incoming
traffic, or look at the router logs, you might see the IDENT packets
being dropped at your firewall.
If the ISP won't cooperate, then install the IDENT daemon at:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/identd/>
It works on W2K and XP. No clue about Vista. You'll also need to
redirect port 113 to your PC (I would use port triggering for this) in
the WRT150N. That should satisfy the ftp server happy.
It's also possible that IDENT is not the problem. Some ftp servers
insist on running a reverse-DNS lookup on all connections. Your ISP's
DNS server may not be doing that properly. Yours seems to be ok at:
62.82.88.76.in-addr.arpa PTR cpe-76-88-82-62.san.res.rr.com.
but I'm not sure if you're having the problem at this particular IP
address.
Out of curiousity, does your WRT150N hang or lockup?
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