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From: Jack Bowling <jbinpg@shaw.ca>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] About HTB , bandwidth limiting for ftp port...
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:00:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-104761089910146@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-104759525429091@msgid-missing>

** Reply to message from "Martin A. Brown" <mabrown-lartc@securepipe.com> on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:37:33 -0600 (CST)

> Hi there Dhirendra,
> 
>  : Okay now I put on a rule for FTP port 21 for 100Kbps. Now when I am
>  : retriving data from ftp server I think the port is different when doing
>  : passive ftp transfer. If I am not wrong then a new dynamic port is sent
>  : by the ftp server to the client.. and then client initiates a new
>  : connection on that port and then the real ftp data transfer happens.
> 
> Yes.  I think FTP should be summarily executed.  It has been plaguing us
> since the beginnings of firewalls and NAT.  Sadly, another spiritually
> impoverished but well-known operating system has two basic options for
> file transfer:  HTTP ("the Internet", of course!), and FTP (for experts!).
> Of course, on the other side of the divide, people (ab)use ssh for all
> sorts of nefarious purposes.......  (anybody remember a recent article in
> some print periodical detailing NFS over ssh?)
<snip>

Not trying to be argumentative or start a useless tangential thread here, but none other than Frank da Cruz provides his reason why he thinks ftp is better than ssh/scp at the following link:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html

Note he is coming at this as the developer of the most capable comm program ever.

jb

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Jack Bowling                mailto:jbinpg@shaw.ca
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-14  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13 22:55 [LARTC] About HTB , bandwidth limiting for ftp port Dhirendra Pal Singh
2003-03-14  2:37 ` Martin A. Brown
2003-03-14  3:00 ` Jack Bowling [this message]
2003-03-14  4:19 ` Dhirendra Pal Singh
2003-03-14 21:52 ` Stef Coene
2003-03-15  0:16 ` Dhirendra Pal Singh
2003-03-15 10:41 ` Stef Coene

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