On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:02:19AM -0600, anoop aryal wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:43 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > > FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is
> > > probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an
> > > excellent SSH/SCP client for Windows (and Unix) if you need cross
> > > platform support.
> > >
> > > You probably don't want to use SSH Compression as I've seen it actually
> > > slow down file transfers over fast LAN links. The SSH encryption might
> > > slow down the transfer as well, so the transfer speed might depend on
> > > the speed of your CPUs.
> >
> > additional comment - iirc, it's possible to choose weak encryption for
> > ssh that might actually speed it up a bit.
>
> to avoid incurring any encryption/decryption overhead, if you are in a trusted
> network and if both machines have netcat (you probably can get netcat for
> windows by installing cygwin) you can try the following:
If you just want netcat for Windows, there are pre-compiled binaries available
e.g. at
http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/
>
> on the workstation do:
>
> nc -l -p 6000 > my12gigFile
>
> and on the mailserver do:
>
> nc -q myWorkstationIP 6000 < my12gigFile
>
> that is the quickest way to get the file across as far as i know. however, in
> my experience, the best way to move really large files across is to place the
> file under a webserver and then use wget with the -c option; since, it seems,
> that you inevitably run into problems midway thru the long transfer and
> having the ability to continue where you left off is worth the overhead of
> http. if you do end up using ftp, look into tftp.
>
> hope it helps.
>
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > --
> > Lubos
> > _@_"
>
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>
>
> anoop
> aaryal@foresightint.com
>
>
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