OpenSSH HPN

Jan Bramkamp crest at rlwinm.de
Wed Nov 11 13:06:46 UTC 2015


On 11/11/15 09:27, Ben Woods wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
>
>> Ben Woods wrote this message on Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 15:40 +0800:
>>> I have to agree that there are cases when the NONE cipher makes sense,
>> and
>>> it is up to the end user to make sure they know what they are doing.
>>>
>>> Personally I have used it at home to backup my old FreeBSD server (which
>>> does not have AESNI) over a dedicated network connection to a backup
>> server
>>> using rsync/ssh. Since it was not possible for anyone else to be on that
>>> local network, and the server was so old it didn't have AESNI and would
>>> soon be retired, using the NONE cipher sped up the transfer
>> significantly.
>>
>> If you have a trusted network, why not just use nc?
>>
>
> Honest answer: ignorance of how I can use netcat together with rsync.

Sounds like you're looking for rsyncd instead of rsync over ssh (minus 
encryption).


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