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- From: swssauby@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (Michael Saunby)
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- Subject: Re: FSP sites?? Any available?
- Message-ID: <swssauby.722510522@reading>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 09:22:02 GMT
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- bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe) writes:
-
- >hui@apaturia.trl.OZ.AU (Alvaro Hui) writes:
-
- >Okay, I give up. What is FSP? Given the response
- >to this post (only a few sites known), I'd guess
- >that a lot of others would be interested as well.
- >Plus, I looked it up in Kroll's book as well and
- >there is nothing listed.
-
- The following is the first part of the FSP Readme
-
- Interested party please email
- wen-king@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu
- What is the purpose of FSP:
-
- FSP is a set of programs that implements a public-access archive
- similar to an anonymous-FTP archive. It is not meant to be a
- replacement for ftp; it is only meant to do what anonymous-ftp
- does, but in a manner more acceptible to the provider of the
- service and more friendly to the clients.
-
- Providing anonymous-FTP service can be costly --- each active
- session consumes one process slot in the OS and one stream socket
- entry in the network sub-system. The servers can also run
- concurrently, adding to the system load. A popular archive site
- can easily be overwhelmed as a result. Some were forced to
- shutdown or and some impose inconvienent access restrictions.
-
- Unlike FTP, FSP is connection-less and virtually state-less. One
- server handles requests from all clients machines. Each active
- client machine takes up 16-bytes in a dynamically extensible
- table. Since only one server runs at any time, the load added
- to the server machine is less than one.
-
- And it ends:
-
- This is a free software. Be creative; make your own macros and tools
- and let me know of any bugs and suggestions.
-
-
- >Bill Goffe
- >bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu
- --
- Michael Saunby (M.Saunby@reading.ac.uk)
- Meteorology Dept, Reading University, UK
-