RE: FTP

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I disagree (in part). While we still use SNADS for some legacy applications,
my experience is that FTP is much faster than SNADS even over the same type
of line.  I recently did some informal benchmarking on file transfers
between hosts. I sent a file from a little 170 in Macon, GA, over 128kbps
frame relay to our 730 production box in Denton, TX, in half the time it
took to transfer the file from the 730 to our hot site across town via
SNADS. Snads would win the reliability prize IF the line between the boxes
is reliable, but given the situation, I think TCP/IP would handle a noisy
line or brief drop-outs better than SNA, without all the line recovery that
SNA requires. Also, TCP/IP is more efficient given the same bandwidth.

JMHO,   

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
 


-----Original Message-----
From: oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com
[mailto:oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:10 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: AW: FTP


Hello,

if you only need to connect to another AS/400, I'd stick with SNADS! You can
run SNADS over TCP/IP -much more
reliable than FTP, IMHO.

Regards,

Ol'who just hates FTP'iver

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  glea@dextermag.com [SMTP:glea@dextermag.com]
> Gesendet am:  Mittwoch, 8. August 2001 23:11
> An:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Betreff:      FTP
> 
> 
> 
> We are trying to set up FTP between an AS/400 in the US and another one in
> the
> UK.  We know very little about it.  Can anyone suggest a book (or any
> other type
> of media) that can help us learn how to do this?  Presently we are using
> SNADS
> over a dialup connection that is very slow and very unreliable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Lea
> 
> 
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