Hi, On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, jdd wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
The center idea of the p2p protocols is to make the "upload" bandwith of the many many users the "download" bandwidth for the others. A great idea, but it is a design flaw to neglect the existing dedicated servers.
I see your point. but I'm not sure this can be done. p2p use to part the files in small chunks and take/send small chunks from/to different locations.
I doubt the ftp protocol can do that. Can I, with ftp, call for, say, just one 512 bytes file part?
Yes, the reget command allows to continue a broken transfer. The client defines the offset.
in fact we may need a better file exchange protocol, md5sum based, collecting what the user needs anywhere it is... but this I can't do :-(((
Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)