[COLUG] Time Warner Screwing With Protocols?

[Peter King]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Dave Maxwell wrote:

> For the past few months I have been having trouble with scp from my home 
> machine to work.  Switching to sftp would cure the problem but now I'm having 
> trouble with that as well.  Basically, I can transfer about 400k or so before 
> the connection speed starts dropping.  By 800k, the transfer completely 
> stalls out. 

I had a similar problem, and eventually traced it to having a version of scp
that was *not* compiled with "large file support": whenever a large single
file had to be transferred, it would eventually choke and die, even though
it worked fine with small files. Recompiling scp took care of the problem.

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