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Date:      Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:35:25 -0700
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>,  FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ssh None cipher
Message-ID:  <CAOjFWZ4-CNxeEr=y1KA9z75ktNZVasn7zXXCszqPoCZFmtWOWw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141019074600.GD82214@funkthat.com>
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On Oct 19, 2014 12:46 AM, "John-Mark Gurney" <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
>
> Freddie Cash wrote this message on Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:21 -0700:
> > On Oct 18, 2014 3:54 AM, "Mark Martinec" <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > If the purpose of having a none cipher is to have a fast
> > > file transfer, then one should be using  sysutils/bbcp
> > > for that purposes. Uses ssd for authentication, and
> > > opens unencrypted channel(s) for the actual data transfer.
> > > It's also very fast, can use multiple TCP streams.
> >
> > That's an interesting alternative to rsync, scp, and ftp, but doesn't
help
> > with zfs send/recv which is where the none cipher really shines.
> >
> > Without the none cipher, SSH becomes the bottleneck limiting transfers
to
> > around 400 Mbps on a gigabit LAN. With the none cipher, the network
becomes
> > the bottleneck limiting transfers to around 920 Mbps on the same gigabit
> > LAN.
> >
> > This is between two 8-core AMD Opteron 6200 systems using igb(4) NICs.
>
> Are you running on HEAD or possibly 10.x (I believe we have OpenSSL
> 1.0.x on 10.x)?

Nope, 9.2. And I don't think the 6200 series Opterons have AES-NI.



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