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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Another problem with usage charges
Message-ID: <10268@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:18:32 GMT
References: <8804260944.AA25473@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <9012@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <8804260944.AA25473@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VALDIS@CLVM.CLARKSON.EDU (Valdis Kletnieks) writes:
>Ever have this happen to you?
>% ftp someplace.faraway.arpa
>ftp>get big.manymeg.file
>(14 meg of the 15 meg file has been transferred)
>netinet: net unreachable
>     
>Who pays for the 14 meg of usage? 

Well -- if you read the spec, FTP itself implements checkpoint/restart.
Better protocols may be desirable, but for now we should make the most
of the ones we already have.

Has anyone implemented checkpoint/restart in FTP?


	--Steve Bellovin
	ulysses!smb
	smb@ulysses.att.com