Quite an interesting thread.  We've seen this problem but not involving RHEL.  
It was between HPUX and a Windows host separated by a frame-relay link.  
Transfers would bog out after a few hundred KB.  The link got replaced for 
other reasons with a much faster one and the problem seems to have gone away.  
Like you said, probably just masking the true problem but still interesting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 07:15
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] issues with scp/sftp
> 
> On 01/05/2010 07:23 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > We are only seeing the transfer issues when it goes across our WAN.
> > average number of hops ~11, avg latency 70-80ms.
> >
> > With a version pre 4.3p2-28 we can transfer just fine.  As of 4.3p2-
> 28,
> > which has the addition of the patch from Bugzilla #227722 (improve
> transfer
> > speed on high latency connections), it stalls on anything over a
> couple of
> > megabytes.  They have tried giving us a couple of other packages, but
> the
> > problem persists as long as that patch is in place.
> 
> Are you going over an IPSec or other VPN tunnel?
> 
> I have had this problem going over an IPSec tunnel and have had to use
> the -l flag with scp to limit the bandwidth (Seattle to New York).
> 
>    scp -l 2000 <source file> <remote host>:<destination file>
> 
> This may be masking the real problem but it has proved very useful to
> me
> in getting the job done.
> 
> --
> Josh Miller, RHCE/VCP
> Seattle, WA
> Linux Solutions Provider
> Website:  http://itsecureadmin.com/
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