now we need a network guru to tell us what one looses by setting TOS value for ftp packets to 0??

the ftp solution is not a solution its a hack, there is a bug somewhere responsible for this.

whirlpool, I suggest you try to give other tcp traffix TOS 10 and see if you'll face similar problems.

this was a case study in how statistics and corelation are not enough to diagnose problems, whirlpool originaly thought that ssh connections from putty worked fine (correct but it turned out it was because of the IP).

cheers, Alaa

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