9 May
2008
9 May
'08
5:07 p.m.
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:34:32AM -0500, Dave Hull wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Ed Allen era@jimani.com wrote:
FTP being based on UDP is connectionless so no worries about TCP connections being trashed by confusion over IP addresses.
FTP is a TCP protocol.
It appears to have changed while I was using the superior SFTP. It *used to be* entirely UDP.
I suppose that since every machine now has TCP it was decided to be a better file transfer protocol.
Thanks for the concise correction.
-- Ed Allen