From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 1:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B071140D for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA19110; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:41:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36CBA829.21CCB81A@seattleu.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:42:01 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rick hamell wrote: > > How does FTP handle multiple connections from the same machine? > I.e., if I connect to ftp.freebsd.org with a Win95 machine and download > multiple files. Does it open a new connection for each file? Or stream > them along the same connection? I'm trying to put an ftp server up at > work and want to limit my total number of connections. New connection I believe. I have seen messages akin to "only one connection per IP" on several MP3 sites. Try something like ftp explorer (www.ftpx.com) or WS_FTP or others to limit concurrent downloads. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu Where do you want to go today? http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message