Re: Bug#192416: ITP: rsh-redone -- Reimplementation of remote shell tools.
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@duch.mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
[ssh vs. rsh]
> The overhead cannot be ignored unless the only network traffic are text
> login sessions. A brief test involving sending a 38MB file between two
> machines on a 100Mb network, the slower machine being a 375Mhz Celery
> resulted in:
> ssh transmission : 1.6MB/s
> unencrypted transmission: 8.1MB/s
> A back-of-the-envelope extrapolation says that to utilize the full
> bandwidth of that 100Mb Ethernet I would need a 1.8Ghz P2-class machine.
[...]
If using ssh2 with default encryption. "ssh -1 -c blowfish" is *a lot*
faster, and I think ssh2 with blowfish-cbc should be faster, too.
cu andreas
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