vsftpd Hanging up on larger files

Question

Having trouble with a newly setup server's ftp.

Basically, I can ftp find with no errors, I have successfully sent over smaller files, but at about 80Kb+ the file won't send.

First, any operations tells me

229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||61473|)

Is this a default? I haven't had this issue on other servers I've configured. If this is the issue, how can I explicitly set it to Active mode?

The file begins to transfer...ETA at about ten minutes..will get to 15% or so and the next time I check my console I receive

229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30889|).
150 Ok to send data.
0% |                                   |    -1        0.00 KiB/s    --:-- ETA

Answer 1

Passive mode is selected by the client. Take a look at the command-line help for whatever FTP client you are using, if you want to disable passive mode.

Looking at the second snippet, it does not seem like your client is receiving any data at all. A common problem with passive mode is firewalls and other port translating devices, that do not understand the port numbers embedded in FTP protocol chatter. You can either try avoiding passive mode, or locating the hop that causes the problem.