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kmt on July 15, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Using FTP

sftp is not ideal; looks like the author is not aware that ssh (which is what sftp uses) is rather slow on WAN due to buffer issues:

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/papers/i2mm-h...

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