DSL link aggregation?

Bradley Hook bhook at kssb.net
Fri May 9 13:14:19 CDT 2008


The history I see shows that FTP ran over NCP, and then changed to TCP
in 1980. I didn't see anything about UDP in there (I could have missed
it). Regardless, it has been running exclusively over TCP for 20+ years.

Ed Allen wrote:
> 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 at 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.
> 
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