linux as a workstation

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:51:03 -0400


Quoted from Edward Glowacki on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:47:06PM -0400:
> Quoted from Dennis Kelly on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:03:35PM -0400:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:31:52AM -0400, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> > 
> >    [snip]
> >    
> >    [2] I've timed NFS vs SSH, and even with the CPU overhead of
> >    encrypting all the data, SSH was noticably faster... ;)
> >    
> > Really?  What version of NFS were you using?  TCP or UDP?  NFS should
> > scream over SSH.  However, most of my NFS experiences are on the Suns.
> 
> I thought it was v3 TCP, but it was several months ago, so I'm
> really not sure.  

Oh, and also, so there's no confusion, I wasn't running NFS under
SSH, so it was just a comparison between unencrypted NFS and
encrypted SSH.

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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Michigan State University	
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