On Tuesday 24 October 2006 16:41, Geoffrey wrote:
There are valid reasons for using telnet verses ssh on an internal network. The primary reason I do is because it is much faster. Telnet is not going to encrypt everything. Try transferring a file via scp and do the same via rcp. The difference can be substantial, depending on the processor.
Not only the speed difference, but watch the processor load. scp normally takes large amount of the CPU. Here's a trick i regularly use to ease that problem, without having to resort to rcp: i often watch videos while i copy them to another machine (using scp) to be burned to DVD (my desktop machine didn't, until recently, have a DVD burner). When i do this, scp takes up so much CPU that my videos drop frames or the audio drops out for short periods. To get around that, simply renice your scp process: nice -+19 scp myfile remote:/path/to/myfile -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts