I think the overhead of encryption is what slowing you down. If you do
a lot of scp this way and if it's critical to your business, you might
want to invest in a hardware encryption accelerator like the CryptoSwift
board or something similar.
Tung
"Luo, Feng (Exchange)" wrote:
>
> I just install ssh/scp on a couple of my Solaris machines. When I try to scp
> large files between them, it takes much long than ftp. Is there a way to
> move it faster?
>
> Feng
>
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