On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 11:38, Chad Skinner wrote: > > > However, a 120 KBps (note B for bytes, as opposed to b for bits) > > connection implies that you have roughly a 1 Mbps link. Normal for a DSL > > Actually, I have a 100Mbps Duplex link from one server to a client > workstation. This is through two switches with a router and gigabit backbone > interconnecting the switches. I am not the network engineer so I know no > other details. > > The file is a compressed and is 80MB so it should not compress much at all. > Seriously, using ftp the transfer took 15-20 minutes scping the file to 7-8 > seconds. MD5s on the results match. I am wondering what I could have setup > to cause this descrepency in performance? It is a straight RHv8 box with the > stock vsFTPd and new rpms downloaded from proftd. I guess I found it strange > when the network guys were showing me that they could upload the file via > ftp to their windows box at 90 times faster than the FTP server on Linux ... > That's just wrong, I mean something has to be! Does linux throttle ftp > connections by default and not scp? >
DO either the ftp client or server have a bandwidth limiting feature to keep from chewing up too much bandwidth? what about the router? Perhaps ftp is set to a lower qos or what ever it is called so users trying to DL 80MB files don't swamp the network. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
