Re: Slow file sharing performance
Tanel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.cipe |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311548160.10421-100000@tiiger.kivilinn.tartu.ee> |
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, James Knott wrote: > >> I've notice that while my CIPE VPN works, that SMB and NFS access of > >> my home network from my notebook is slow. However, going the other > > One computer is a 1.113 GHz PIII, the other is an Athlon XP 1700. I'd > suspect both ends have sufficient horsepower. Also, when watching the > data lights flash, it's apparent that the data transfer stops entirely > for quite a while. I would expect transfers to be slower due to the Cipe uses UDP protocol and it is very sensitive to packet latency and packet loss. So I think UDP does not suite for a VPN, where files must be transported. Try SSH tunnels instead. -- Message sent by the [email protected] mailing list. Unsubscribe: mail [email protected], "unsubscribe cipe-l" in body Other commands available with "help" in body to the same address. CIPE info and list archive: <URL:http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html>