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Automating File Transfers With SFTP
In my last blog I talked about automating file transfers using FTP. There are three issues with using FTP. First, your password is sent across the network in clear text making it available to anyone with a protocol analyzer. Second, your data is also sent in clear text. Third, you have to record your password [...]
Are You Forwarding Packets?
I recently ran into a site with several modules, each of which was forwarding packets. The worst case was at a rate of 1 every 2 seconds or so. Not very fast you say, but, there are 86,400 seconds in a day so in 1 day that module could be forwarding 63 megabytes (86,400 / 2 [...]
Can You Improve Fault Tolerance with Multiple IP Interfaces on the Same Subnet?
Having two interfaces in a module on the same subnet does not give you two interfaces into and out of the module. While you do get two interfaces into the module, STCP will use just one interface when sending packets out of the module. It does this regardless of which interface a client has connected [...]
