Adding to Heasley’s comments here. You can transfer via SSH based methods and increase speeds using this command as of IOS XR 7.1.x+
ssh server tcp-window-scale On 12/9/22, 11:46, "NANOG" <nanog-bounces+wjnicholson=gmail....@nanog.org> wrote: Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Saku Ytti: > If you read carefully, that is what Steffann is doing. He is doing > 'load location:file' + 'commit'. He is not punching anything by hand. > > So the answer we are looking for is how to make that go faster. > > In Junos answer would be 'ephemeral config', but in IOS-XR as far as I > know, the only thing you can do is improve the 'load' part by moving > the server closer, other than that, you get what you get. set the tcp default mss higher use rcpd remove unnecessary whitespace; ios parser is slow as are the bits behind it remove comments
