> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:29:40AM +1000, David wrote:
>> This is on a LAN, and I'm able to scp large files >8Mb without any
>> problems, so I doubt that it's any sort of shaping problem. When I first
>> had the problem I did some googling and apparently we're not the only
>> ones
>> with the problem, but there were no suggestions as to cause.
>
> I've had the exact same problem you're having (down to scp OK, rsync not)
> and clamping my MTU to 950 solved it. In this case, I had a Cisco box in
> between which *may* have been the cause, but I suspect the problem is more
> likely to be a bodgy NIC in the mix somewhere.
>
> For some reason, SSH/SCP doesn't seem to produce packets that are quite so
> big, but rsync seems to just lurve producing network-choking packets.
>
Interesting... so why does --bwlimit solve the problem? surely the packets
are still the same? Am I showing my ignorance of networks?
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