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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ftpd 6.0 vs wu-ftpd 2.4
Date: 23 Jun 1996 13:30:25 GMT
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rone@ennui.ops.best.com (Ron Echeverri) wrote:

> This is a pretty inane question, but what are the advantages and
> disadvantages of using the ftpd that comes with FreeBSD and using WUFTPD?

wuftpd is much more feature-rich than the default one.  So if you're
going to setup a large anon ftp server, you will want to use wuftpd.

For a simple one (non-anonymous server, or anon server with only low
traffic and limited use), the default ftpd might suffice however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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