That gives me about 9,3 MB/s in my test, contratry to 8,5 MB/s without specifying the cipher.
I don´t know, however, what ciphers are used if I don´t specify one. 2015-03-20 7:21 GMT+01:00 Michael van Elst <[email protected]>: > [email protected] (Stephan) writes: > >>When I copy large files through scp to a NetBSD box, I get transfer >>speeds of only 7 MB/s on a 100 MBit connection. This should be around >>11 MB/s. I´ve seen this on different x86/amd64 hardware with NetBSD 5, >>6 and 7-BETA. The NICs are largely wm, fxp and bnx. > > scp speed most often is limited by the CPU doing the encoding (or worse: > compression). > > You could try something like: > > scp -oCiphers=arcfour .... > > On a modern computer that's more than 4 times as fast as the default > AES cipher. If you don't trust arcfour, maybe blowfish-cbc is good > enough for you and still about 3 times as fast. > > > -- > -- > Michael van Elst > Internet: [email protected] > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
