FWIW, SSH protocol 2 includes MAC (message authentication code) checking (as well as compression and encryption). SSH/SFTP is therefore verified, compressed, and encrypted automatically.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:26:20 +0100, Jim McAlpine wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > > > >> FTP uses TCP so it's the reliability of TCP that matters here. Of what > >> underlying facilities happen to consist is very probably of no > relevance. > >> Thus, > > > >Chris, thanks, that's good to hear. However I've just tried to FTP my > first > >dump which was approx 1.4 GB and it failed about one third the way through > >with - > > > >Netout : Connection reset by peer > >451 Transfer aborted due to receive error > > > >which doesn't bode well. > > > In days of yore, transmitting binary files (SMP/E sysmods) from desktop > systems to MVS FTP servers, I have observed massive unreported failures > such as dropouts of entire 8KiByte blocks. I don't know whether z/OS > is better nowadays. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
