Re: avoiding reinventing the wheel on file transfer.

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost>]

> I see two problems with simply redirecting ports to use the
> existing ftpd..

Of course, there are problems with that, which is why it wasn't what I
proposed.

I proposed running the ftp *protocol* over a collection of ssh
channels through a single ssh connection.

Most likely an implementation of that could reuse most of an ftp
client/server implementation.

					- Bill