Re: losing an FTP connection

The default for AS/400 FTP is 8K packets. You will get a partial file if the 
connection is broke during the session. If you have a IBM 2210 router in your 
network and the data is putting or getting to a PC and the connection is V.90, 
you will have dropped connections.

Jay

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From: Jodi_Walker@ccmail.columbia.com (Jodi Walker)
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:15:09 -0800

>     A quick question for which my quick search of the archives & IBM 
>     publications turned up no answer.  I probably missed it, but I am 
>     pressed for time.
>     
>     If an FTP is started from a 400 and during the transfer, the 
>     connection is lost, will the destination receive part of the data or 
>     none?  
>     
>     We have people who believe the entire FTP is buffered and if the 
>     connection is lost, then nothing is sent.  We have people who believe 
>     that the data is buffered into smaller subsets (say, packets, perhaps) 
>     and sent as each subset is filled, so that if the connection is lost, 
>     the destination will recieve whatever subsets have been transmitted 
>     until the time the connection was lost.  And we have people who 
>     believe the data is 'streamed' and if the connection is lost, the 
>     destination receives whatever has been sent to the point so that even 
>     a single record can arrive incomplete.
>     
>     Thanks for any help.
>     jw
>     
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