On 30 May 2006 at 17:54, jdd wrote:
houghi wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:10:51PM +0200, jdd wrote:
may be like the "look ahead" system of Mozilla. even with a slow connexion, one is sometimes online with little traffic (reading google...). At that time, using the connexion to update part of a file could be great.
Is it possible? I don't know.
Technically no problem. In dialup you just need to add a line at the end that if the connection is OK, you do the update.
it's a little smarter, it should know when the connection is up, when it's down and have a low priority. may be this can be in the ipup/down file as you said
Unfortunately Microsoft already has it. If you are searching the MS Knowledge base for "BITS" (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) and "BitsAdmin Tool", you'll see that they have an API for background transfers (German "c't" magazine recently reported about the command line admin tools). Now I think the lInux kernel has the tools (bandwidth management) as well. What's missing is suspend/resume for downloads, combined with a method to cance unfinished, but meanwhile obsolete downloads. So Microsoft can, what about Novell? ;-) Regards, Ulrich