Re: Restricting/Increasing the no of FTP connections to the Linux box

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

It could be a problem depending on which FTP server you're using.
I'm wondeing if you have some sort of limit already set on your FTP server.
The usual result for that, however, would be that you should simply get
a message saying that you have too many connections.

If a running FTP transfer finishes does one of the blocked
connections suddenly start working?

Do you have a NAT filter or a firewall between your server and your
routers? It really does look like it's something other than the FTP
server program  having problems  (firewalls, etc).

the obvious place to look for error messages would be /var/log/messages .
look in /var/log, for other interesting logifiles, though. you may have
a /var/log/ftplog (or something like that) if you have an FTP server that
writes it's own logfiles instead of using syslog.

also: try doing a last...

   last | less

to see if the FTP connections are getting logged as logins.

Sarika Inamdar wrote:
> Yeah that's right !!
> 
> We are also collected huge data across this connection . Will that be a
> problem for this FTP connection failing.
> 
> Also which logs should I be looking at /var/ ?

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