From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 8 20:36:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB7716A417 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:36:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dds@aueb.gr) Received: from mx-out-01.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5117043D82 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:35:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dds@aueb.gr) Received: from mx-av-01.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-01.forthnet.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k98KZtsp023618; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:35:55 +0300 Received: from mx-in-02.forthnet.gr (mx-in-02.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.185]) by mx-av-01.forthnet.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k98KZtYU020707; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:35:55 +0300 Received: from [192.168.136.16] (ppp39-174.adsl.forthnet.gr [62.1.250.174]) by mx-in-02.forthnet.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k98KZrTA025980; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:35:54 +0300 Authentication-Results: mx-in-02.forthnet.gr from=dds@aueb.gr; sender-id=neutral; spf=neutral Message-ID: <4529612C.8000908@aueb.gr> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:35:56 +0300 From: Diomidis Spinellis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060729 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme References: <200610081454.k98Eseas063823@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200610081454.k98Eseas063823@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Subject: Re: scp -c none (was Re: NFS client slow on amd64 6.2-PRERELEASE #2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:36:11 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > [...] > > It's really too bad the OpenBSD guys refuse to > > incorporate the HP (high-performance) patches into OpenSSH, and > > being able to say "-c none" would *really* help when it comes to > > benchmarking network I/O via scp > > Here's a patch for FreeBSD: > > http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/FreeBSD/openssh-cipher-none.patch > > Go to /usr/src/crypto/openssh, then apply the patch and > rebuild libssh, ssh and sshd. Then you can use "-c none". > > I use "scp -c none" a lot within my internal network to > transfer files between slow boxes. Encryption isn't really > required there, but I can still use all of ssh'd features > such as .ssh/authorized_keys, aliases via .ssh/config etc. > > I considered submitting the patch for official inclusion, > but the OpenSSH people would reject it because they call > it "insecure", and the FreeBSD people would reject it > because they say the patch should be submitted to the > OpenSSH people. *sigh* :-( You can also use ports/net/socketpipe. For example you can copy a directory with: socketpipe -b -i { tar cf - directory } -l { ssh remotehost } -r { tar xvf - } I use it for exactly the same purpose: copies between slow machines within my internal network. Diomidis - dds@