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how to install ftp server on RHEL6 that does not have Internet access

Our RHEL 6 DB server does not have Internet access, thus we can't do 'yum'.

We would like to temporarily install ftp server (guess it's called vsftpd) :
how can we go about doing this? Give step by step instruction including
where to get vsftpd rpm package (& its dependent packages if any).

Also provide the exact commands (guess it's 'rpm -ivh ./folder_of_RPMs' )

We can download to a laptop & use laptop to sftp over the RPMs.

sunhux

ASKER

Somehow using sftp, a 110MB dmp file took days to transfer to laptop that's
directly connected to a NIC & still did not complete.

Thus we are resorting to ftp server (as temp measure)

David Favor

The reason for this is the SFTP server is configured with default values, which are rarely correct for any real work.

Just configure your SFTP server + restart it.

You're looking for settings like total bandwidth/connection + total aggregate bandwidth.

I usually set these values to be 1/2 the throughput of the total connection bandwidth for the machine... based on connection speed of machine...

sunhux

ASKER

Thanks David, still need to address the following:

We would like to temporarily install ftp server (guess it's called vsftpd) :
how can we go about doing this? Give step by step instruction including
where to get vsftpd rpm package (& its dependent packages if any).

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David Favor

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