FTP with restart
 

I am trying to download large files (3GB or so) from a CENT OS server using ftp. My broadband connection is not stable and resets once in a while. When a reset happens, I need to restart the ftp rather that starting from scratch.

I need to understand if the LINUX ftp servers/clients support this and if so how does one do this.

Many thanks for your help.

You can use wget to download with -c option (check the wget manpage for examples). If I'm not wrong, wget can work with ftp.

I was not familiar with wget. Looks like that's the tool I need. Let me try it out.

Thanks for your help.

wget (with the -c option) has been working quite well for me to download 3GB+ files on a not-too-stable broadband connection. Thanks again for the help.