Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >hello there, > >i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux as >opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being the >constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP. > >unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university network >which has bandwidth allocation caps on FTP and HTTP. for example: a >typical FTP download (to a machine 5 miles away) goes at ~2K/s, even >when the undergrads have all gone home and are not clogging the >resources, whereas an scp (across a hemisphere and a timezone) goes >~200K/s. the good news being that port 22 is not capped: i was >wondering if there were SFTP sources equivalent to the FTP lists? (or >any other non ftp/http methods which may solve this problem)
May be they can use an external proxy via ssh. Say, they have ssh access to host X where X is outside their university network and can use a proxy on Y:8000 (Y could be X itself). Now they can forward their localhost:8000 to Y:8000 ssh'ing through X, and set APT to use localhost:8000 as a proxy. -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the serious mistakes Microsoft made is thinking they could write a text editor. Editors are not programs, they are religions, with True Believers of all sorts. -- Joseph M. Newcomer, microsoft.public.vc.mfc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
