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From: wied@birdie.sps.mot.com (Bill Wied)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Need: Enhanced FTP
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Date: 27 Feb 91 16:47:30 GMT
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Reply-To: wied@birdie.sps.mot.com (Bill Wied)
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I hope I'm posting this in the right news group.

I'm looking for an enhanced version of FTP which will create virtual connections between hosts that are not directly connected, possibly using routing table information on in between hosts.

What I'm thinking of is an enhanced FTP that will first check to see if it can attached directly to the host being sought, if not then it will check it's routing information and FTP to a machine that can connect, possibly through more links, to the machine wanted.

The control connection probably needs to be some virtual pipe but the data connection can either create a virtual connection or use some kind of store and forward mechanism to route it's data to the desired host.

Is there any kind of code already out there??? I would really rather not reinvent the wheel. I would appreciate any help. If I can not find code already existing I will post my solution somewhere.

Please mail me at wied@birdie.sps.mot.com

Thanks in advance!