Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> SSH2 uses the Triple-DES cipher by default, if I'm not entirely mistaken.
>
> Try "scp -c blowfish ..."
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$ scp -c blowfish testfile user@a2:.
user@a2's password:
Transfering testfile -> a2:./testfile (51201k)
|......oOo..............................................................................|
52428800 bytes transferred in 3 minutes 13.48 seconds [264.63 kB/sec].
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> If you get ~1000 kB/s on ftp on a 100 Mbit switched LAN, that's bad too
> and you should look into the causes of your networking problems.
There is a silly mistake in my original posting. I lost a zero when
rounding off the value. The correct value is in the parenthesis.
~10600kb/s.
To be sure I checked again, got ~ the same result.
$ scp testfile user@a2:.
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Transfering testfile -> a2:. (51201k)
|......oOo..............................................................................|
52428800 bytes transferred in 4 minutes 35.45 seconds [185.88 kB/sec].
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With ftp:
( 52428800 bytes sent in 4.8 seconds (10592.57 Kbytes/s) )
> > Compression doesn't help.
>
> That's normal. If you've read my recent postings on the list, you have
> repeatedly heard that compression is an extra burden on the CPU that
> can only help on really slow lines.
Ok.
rgds
/PL
