There is secure extension of ftp protocol (ftps), which is usually turned on by AUTH TLS command in ftp protocol.
In this ftps protocol, control connection where the password is transmitted is encrypted, and the data connection is encrypted optionally.
lftp supports AUTH TLS and turns on this secure extension by default if it is supported by server. In Red Hat 8 this extension is supported by default in wu-ftpd.Unfortunately, in Red Hat 9 it is not supported, since wu-ftpd was replaced with vsftpd.
There are other 64 bit architectures that linux already runs on just fine. And most programs included with ix86 linux distributions also work on 64 bit archs (e.g. alpha).
There are quite easy guidelines on how to write portable programs, and most good programmers follow it, just because it is right thing to do. Of course, shit happens and without testing on different platforms (be it 64/32 bit issue or big/little endianness) it is almost impossible to guarantee that a program will work on some random platform.
Fortunately, in open source world people can fix problems arising on a new cpu/platform even when the author(s) does not have access to that platform.
I also have promise controller (fasttrak tx4), and I have tried native promise's driver for redhat 7.2. The fact is that native driver works slower (in both transfer rate and cpu usage) than linux software raid-0.
I think their low-end cards do not have hardware raid support. The only thing they are good at is raid-1 (mirroring), because you can duplicate disks after failure using bios, without the need to boot from cdrom.
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if your ftp server supports s/key or opie, then you can send the one-time password automatically without s/key calculator using lftp.
In this ftps protocol, control connection where the password is transmitted is encrypted, and the data connection is encrypted optionally.
lftp supports AUTH TLS and turns on this secure extension by default if it is supported by server. In Red Hat 8 this extension is supported by default in wu-ftpd.Unfortunately, in Red Hat 9 it is not supported, since wu-ftpd was replaced with vsftpd.
There are other 64 bit architectures that linux already runs on just fine. And most programs included with ix86 linux distributions also work on 64 bit archs (e.g. alpha).
There are quite easy guidelines on how to write portable programs, and most good programmers follow it, just because it is right thing to do. Of course, shit happens and without testing on different platforms (be it 64/32 bit issue or big/little endianness) it is almost impossible to guarantee that a program will work on some random platform.
Fortunately, in open source world people can fix problems arising on a new cpu/platform even when the author(s) does not have access to that platform.
I also have promise controller (fasttrak tx4), and I have tried native promise's driver for redhat 7.2. The fact is that native driver works slower (in both transfer rate and cpu usage) than linux software raid-0.
I think their low-end cards do not have hardware raid support. The only thing they are good at is raid-1 (mirroring), because you can duplicate disks after failure using bios, without the need to boot from cdrom.