With it one could, for example, impose a bandwidth limit on a particular service, such as FTP connections initiated from external systems. While this facility is very useful, it is intended to be configured by an administrator on a system-wide basis and does not provide a ready means for an individual user to control a single connection. We have modified the NcFTP source code to create a dummynet pipe for the file transfer data connection so the user can limit the file transfer bandwidth consumed by their transfer. The software will allow quantitative specification of Quality of Service. The system will be insensitive to outages of nodes.
Recovery is built into the threads by definition, since checkpoint is a basic capability.
For the case of ATDNet, those sites which wish to leave the software installed can do so. As this software is being developed Sarnoff will, via existing relationships to computer systems vendors, determine any interest these vendors have in incorporating this software into their product base.