Re: Slow file sharing performance
James Knott <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.cipe |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Tanel wrote: > 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. > Actually, info on the CIPE contradicts your point. -- 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>