Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I > experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the > server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With > plain old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half duplex?) link.
In that case I suggest you try blowfish cipher instead of 3des, which seems to be Debian default for some reason. Blowfish is a _lot_ faster than 3des, as this should demonstrate: (scp runs on my 400MHz laptop and sshd on a 900MHz server, networks is 100Mbps with no additional traffic.) $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real 1m28.652s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.450s $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real 0m27.329s user 0m0.070s sys 0m0.390s Nice difference, right? When you have decided this is really what you want, it's time to edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config to make blowfish the default cipher by adding 'Cipher blowfish' in part 'Host *'. Suonpää...
