Slightly OT - SFTP versus FTP speeds

[Steve Flynn]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> That's way abnormal.  I've seem some very wild varience in speed between
> different SSH clients (you didn't specify which you were using) but
> nothing that would account for that kind of speed penalty.  There have
> been some reports of ISP throttling encrypted traffic in their P2P
> fighting attempts, but again, this is a bit extreme.  (ps, you should
> probably leave encryption on, in any case.)

The windows machine identifies it's SSH implementation as "SSH
implementation = http://3sp.com_Maverick_SSHD"
The AIX box is using OpenSSH 4.7

This is on a private circuit between two companies - no ISP involved.
Also no throttling on the circuit or QoS either.

> I would suggest trying Filezilla on Windows as the client

Oddly enough, I have the Windows admin doing that very thing right
now. Sadly, that isn't going to correct the problem long term as the
Windows machine is running some software from a company I cannot name
(corp NDA) which handles incoming connections. The SSH implementation
is baked into their software so if I do find that it doesn't play well
with OpenSSH 4.7 Im going to require a patch from them.

All getting a bit complex for this list, and technically it's got
nothing to do with Ubuntu Linux either. Thanks for the feedback on the
speed though. Sadly, we have a difference of opinions in that one camp
says it's typical and another says it's well out of order.

-- 
Steve
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