DrFTPD is an open source, distributed FTP daemon in Java. It does not handle transfers like normal FTP servers. Instead of conventional server ↔ client transfer, DrFTPD is set up with a master and a collection of file transfer slaves that handle the file transfers, meaning users can have as many file transfer slaves as they like. Some names that could be used to describe this is FTP site merger, FTP cluster, FTP grid or multi-site BNC.

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  • DrFTPD is an open source, distributed FTP daemon in Java. It does not handle transfers like normal FTP servers. Instead of conventional server ↔ client transfer, DrFTPD is set up with a master and a collection of file transfer slaves that handle the file transfers, meaning users can have as many file transfer slaves as they like. Some names that could be used to describe this is FTP site merger, FTP cluster, FTP grid or multi-site BNC. DrFTPD can not only use master ↔ client for control connections and slave ↔ client for (most) data transfers, but it works with existing FTP software; regular FTP application can be used, and site-to-site (FXP) transfers can be made with normal FTP servers. The only exception is with passive (PASV) mode; for this the client needs to support the PRET protocol extension. PRET is already supported in several of the most widely used FTP applications. It often works without PASV mode unless the user is behind a firewall which he does not have access to or he needs to FXP with another DrFTPD server or a server which does not support PASV. If you merge 10x100mbit sites, you don't get a 1gbit site but you get a 10x100mbit site. What this means is that the aggregate bandwidth is 1000 mbit but a single transfer will never go above 100mbit.
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  • DrFTPD is an open source, distributed FTP daemon in Java. It does not handle transfers like normal FTP servers. Instead of conventional server ↔ client transfer, DrFTPD is set up with a master and a collection of file transfer slaves that handle the file transfers, meaning users can have as many file transfer slaves as they like. Some names that could be used to describe this is FTP site merger, FTP cluster, FTP grid or multi-site BNC.
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