On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:28:36AM +1000, David wrote: > > 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?
Now there's a difference. --bwlimit didn't work for me. Perhaps you don't have such bong network hardware that it needs such major restrictions as I had to apply. - Matt
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