ftp/paraget 0.3.0_3 DragonFly

Parallel FTP-fetching program

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2
Categories: ftp, perl5
Package size: 24.3 KiB, 76.4 KiB installed

Description

Paraget implements getting a single file in parallel from different mirror sites.

Given that there are mirror-sites for the file one is downloading, one can in principle accomplish a much greater bandwidth by downloading from all the sites in parallel . This is accomplished by dividing the file being fetched into several pieces, and by getting each piece from a different server, and then re-assembling them.

If there are enough mirror sites, this partitioning makes it so that the bottleneck is now placed at the client end, maxing the client's connection.

Paraget is designed to not only do basic n -equal-piece partitioning of a file and sending requests out to n servers for data, but to also be dynamic during the downloading process. For example if one server is too slow, and paraget was done with faster server downloading its piece

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

ftp/paraget

0.3.0_3

FreeBSD

ftp/paraget

0.3.0_3

HardenedBSD

ftp/paraget

0.3.0_3

GhostBSD

ftp/paraget

0.3.0_3

Install

Binary package:

pkg install paraget

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/ftp/paraget && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 4

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The paraget port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing