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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 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- 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 > >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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