scp much slower than ftp (again).

From: Ryo Furue (furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Date: 01/21/02 

From: furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ryo Furue)
Date: 21 Jan 2002 01:54:23 -0800

Hi all,

By searching an archive of past articles of this newsgroup, I noticed
this issue has been raised repeatedly. I'm suffering from the same
problem. (2000KB/s with ftp; 300KB/s with scp; 200KB with scp -C).

If I understand correctly, scp tends to be slower than ftp because it
encrypts the data. This makes me wonder: Is it possible to tell ssh
(or its family) not to encrypt the data? In other words, is it
possible to use ssh only to authentificate myself? I prefer scp to
ftp solely because scp keeps my password from being transferred over
the Internet in plaintext. I don't need to keep my data secret. I
don't mind if anybody steals my data!

The remote host has only SSH1

        SSH Version 1.2.27 [], protocol version 1.5

and I can't do anything about that.

I think I could accomplish what I want if I could "speak to" the
remote ftp daemon in the FTP "language" over the SSH channel....

Thank you,
Ryo

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