HP9000 FTP question

[Jim Tropiano]

Have a question about doing a FTP on a HP9000 unix box. Senario : Signing on to the HP9000 and doing a FTP to another box. Is it faster to do a put or a get?

[Steven E. Protter]

We're talking milliseconds here.

I doubt there is an advantage with either.

I would suggest running tests as I've done both and not seen any appreciable difference, even with huge files.

I would suggest that ftp should not be used at all. It transmits passwords in clear text. Thats bad.

HP Secure Shell is a better way to go.

SEP

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Unless you have an extremely fast network then it really doesn't matter as typically the network is the bottleneck. The protocol overhead is the same for a put or a get so that doesn't matter. The only factor that could come into play (and, again, only on a very fast network) is the speed of the filesystem operations. In that case, the box with the faster i/o should be doing the writing -- and that is usually a UNIX box. Reading the file, generally takes better advantage of buffering so the overall i/o impact is a bit less than writing --- which also incurs the overhead of directory and metadata updates.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Jim

I searched on the web for this , put is slower then get.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1997/02/24/0002.html



Manoj Srivastava