"FB" <FB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Custom FTP Client Vs Windows XP Firewall (SP2) - SIGEM app
>
> We have a custom FTP client app (made by a customer) used to Upload docs.
>
> Insted a standard FTP is used a home-made FTP client because the app
> generates a "receipt" fo the uploaded docs.
>
> We have several problems using this particular software and only if we
> disable XP Firewall the app works well. In the Vista OS works fine.
>
> The Firewall admin captures some traffic and observed a lot of packets
> with
> less than 4 KB with XP firewall enalbled and with Firewall disabled the
> size
> of the packets are bigger and the performance of the app really improves.
>
> The app cannont be "re-written", and i can´t change my Personal Firewall,
> so
> i´m thinking if i can change some parameter os the OS to make the FTP
> upload
> work well with the XP Firewall enabled. Even modifyinf TCP/IP parameters,
> they can be changed with Firewall enabled?
As a further test you could try installing Filezilla client which has a
built in connection test (Network Connection Wizard). Windows XP SP2/SP3
firewall may impede FTP connectivity. Why don't you try another firewall
program if you cannot simply disable Windows firewall?
http://filezilla-project.org
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Allan
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