[olug] A TCP/IP mystery

[Dave Thacker]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 19:30:28 Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> Is it actually tunneled, or are they using sftp/scp?(please dont tell
> me they setup a ssh tunnel and then use FTP)

Yes it's actually tunnelled.   The data being sent is xml records from a 
windows app written in (unknown) to a perl listener on the linux machine. 
>
> I've typically witnessed windows machines using sftp/scp/other
> encrytion only getting around 3Megabytes/sec through an encrypted link
> on a 100MB or 1GB network, and on the same network, two linux boxes
> will get 10-11Megabytes/sec.

The machines are using SSLv3.  
>
> It would help to know what they mean by 'blocking'. Using tcp the
> connection should be slower or faster, but not just hung.

I think that's windows developerese for "data transmission stops"

Dave