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Subject: Re: ftpd vs. wu-ftpd vs. ? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>Between the ftpd bundled with 2.2.6R and wu-ftpd, is there any 
>particular reason to use one over the other?  What's the difference 
>between them?  What does ftp.cdrom.com use, and why?

   wu-ftpd has a large selection of features, but is a total (memory/CPU) pig
because of it. The stock ftpd is much less of a pig but has far fewer
features. Wcarchive runs "dg-ftpd", which is my own version (and not publicly
available).

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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