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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- > > > anoop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379
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