asymetric speeds over gigE link

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: 
>
>     > I have also seen 700Mb/s sustained FreeBSD - FreeBSD using the openssh HPN
>     > patch set and no extra tuning of the network stack.  Which makes me 
>     > think that maybe the linux stack needs some tuning?
>
> What is the "HPN patch" ?
>   
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center high performance networking patches, 
which have been around for a few years and are maintained, available as 
part of ports/security/openssh-portable.

Sadly, my patches for the ROT13 cipher have not made it into 
OpenSSH/OpenSSL as of yet.         +

Regards,
BMS

+ Very capable of line rate encryption. And based on a mature USENET 
technology...