[Tutor] control multiple FTP sessions using multiple ipconnectionsvia different com ports

[Johan Geldenhuys]

Will it be possible to disconnect one of the links during your test and
reconnect it and disconnect the other connection once the ftp test is
finished on the first connection? This way it will force the test script to
use the active route to the internet.
 
Not the most elegant way, but something to look at in the mean time.
 
Johan

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From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf
Of ray sa
Sent: 18 February 2007 04:16 AM
To: Alan Gauld; tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] control multiple FTP sessions using multiple
ipconnectionsvia different com ports


Hi Alan et al
 
Many thanks for your time on this.
 
I was referring to the client end. 
 
An EDGE terminal is a phone that has the capability of connecting to the
internet. We use mobile phones to make a voice call that make use of a
circuit switched connection. By using a GPRS connection we can use the
mobile device to connect to the packet switched domain. You might have heard
about making data connection using your phone like GPRS, 3G etc. EDGE is
just faster than a GPRS connection and 3G is supposedly faster than GPRS and
EDGE. 
 
May be I can give you more information about what I am trying to do. So you
can understand what I am trying to achieve. Basically, I am trying to decide
whether I should change my ADSL fixed solution to a higher speed connection
using a mobile solution. Where I live the mobile operator is offering a
mobile solution which is cheaper than my fixed solution….and is faster than
my ADSL connection, please read on
 
I have my ADSL broadband connection to my service provider that I use to
connect to the internet. I have just bought a GPRS/EDGE/3G terminal and
wanted to benchmark the speed I am getting by using my mobile device as
opposed to my fixed connection.
 
My desktop machine is connected to my ADSL provider using a USB modem which
is assigned a particular COM port on my machine. Then I have connected my
mobile handset also using a USB connection connected to a different COM
port.
 
Now I have two ip addresses
 

1.	ADSL – COM port 4 with ip addres from my ADSL service provider 

2.	Mobile Handset – COM port 5 with another ip address from my mobile
provider

 
I have written a script that connects to a ftp server within my home country
and downloads a file. But this script uses one of the connections above.
There must be away to tell the script and control which connection to use.
So I can get to see real time which connection is faster. So I can run the
script pointing to one IP address and at the same time run another script
using the other connection. 
 
I think there must be a method that finds out which connection is connected
to which com port and then in my script I need to point towards that
connection so my script knows which channel to use when downloading the
file.
 
I hope this helps sorry for too much text couldn’t really find a simpler way
to explain this. 
 
Once again I really appreciate the help on this forum...../Ray


Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:


"ray sa" wrote 

> I have been successful to write an ftp script that logs 
> into a server and collects files. 

> ...I would like to run multiple ftp sessions using one laptop 
> with two different connections. 

Do you mean you want the server on the laptop accepting 
using two connections or do you mean that you want
the client on the laptop and have different sessions sending 
outgoing requests to the server via two different IP addresses?

If the former its easy, just set up two servers, one on each 
IP address. The port will nbe the same on both, ISTR its port 
21 for ftp?

If you want to specify which IP address you send the 
client request from, I'm afraid I have no idea how you specify 
that. I've only ever used multiple network cards at the server 
end!

> another connection using your EDGE terminal 

As a matter of interest what is an EDGE terminal? 
A new term for me...

> I would like to write a script that controls which ip 
> address to use or with com port to use. 

Until we know which end you mean its hard to hgive more 
specific advice.

Alan G.

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