Re: Slow file sharing performance

Tanel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cipe
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.


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