High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 juillet 2007 à 17:18 +0100, Pádraig Brady a écrit :
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> Compression is a big win for remote tranfers. For local ones of course
>>> it's a net loss.
>> It's not as simple as that.
>> I also tested across the LAN,
> 
> LAN counts as local too. You can find many discussions on compression
> pros & cons at the protocol level on the internet.
> 
> 

It really comes down to who is the bottleneck - the wire or the CPU...

/Thomas