[PLUG] Incredibly Slow scp Across Local Ethernet

[Paul Mullen]

The subject pretty much says it all. I've got two local machines (both
Linux) directly connected via a cross-over cable. On one side is an 800
MHz PPC, and the other a 120MHz Pentium. Networking seems to operate
just fine, for the most part. I can ssh in to the Pentium from the PPC,
and do all the usual shell-ish stuff. Transfering files via scp is
unbearably slow, though. After the first ~500k the connection begins to
"stall" (as reported by the scp status line), and never seems to make
any further progress. Small files seem to be OK, but I've tried a 15 MB
file and a ~300 MB file, both with no success. Any ideas? I've tried a
Google search, but couldn't figure out an appropriate query for the
question. :-/


Paul