On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Baenen wrote: > > Using scp -c blowfish definitely improved things - went from 60Mbps > > transfer to 70Mbps and cpu load on the pfSense firewalls varied from 50% > > to 70%. > > interesting, I tried this across our lanex and got 20MB/s default > (3des), 24MB using blowfish, and 29MB/s using plain old des. > > both machines were core2duo, receiving end was laptop (but copying file > to /dev/null), sending end big server with core2duo @2.8GHz, so I'm > surprised the CPU was playing such a big part.
He's encrypting multiple times. Once from firewall to firewall and once from server to server. The firewalls appear to be at 100% CPU - he didn't mention the CPU utilization on the servers performing the transfer. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
