[needs-packaging] Firehose - send load balanced data over multiple ethernet and firewire connections

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URL:
http://www.heroinewarrior.com/firehose.php3

Description:

FIREHOSE gives you a basic data transfer over multiple network devices supporting TCP/IP layers. "Stripe" multiple 100Mbit, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, or firewire to give one humungous pipe for firehosing your gigabytes and gigabytes of data.

FIREHOSE load balances the network devices so every ounce of bandwidth is utilized. Combine a 400Mbit firewire eth device with a 100Mbit eth device to get 500Mbits of power. Combine 10 100Mbit ethernet ports for a gigabit pipe. The number of devices which can be used is limited only by imagination and budget.

The FIREHOSE package contains a simple library allowing any application wishing to stream data across "striped" networks to do so with just a few function calls.
Also included is a file transfer utility and a pipe utility. Pipe gigabytes of uncompressed video, CD-R images, scientific data, tar archives, and porn all with the greatest of ease.

It also works with single network devices for those who just want to pipe data over networks or defeat 2 gig limits on nfs and ftp.

There are catches of course. FIREHOSE is purely a data transfer library and does not implement a TCP layer over multiple devices nor does it have any security features. Support for The Soft won't happen. It's purely intended for non-interactive, raw speed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License
taken from the ReadMe file in the compressed download file.

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Not packaged, so too early to request a backport.