From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 3 5:43:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C8837B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360A243E3B for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g93Ch2kM006311; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:43:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200210031243.g93Ch2kM006311@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?shubha=20mr?= Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: multicast ftp? References: <20021003063833.24835.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 07:38:33 BST." <20021003063833.24835.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:43:02 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Does freeBSD support ftp for a multicast address? It would be really hard for any OS to support FTP to a multicast address, as TCP doesn't work with multicast addresses. FTP uses TCP as the transport protocol for it's control connection and the data connection that's used to move data between two points. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message