[Bennett Todd] (in an old message :-)
> Well hrm. I'd _definitely_ use ssh (OpenSSH is currently my
> favourite implementation), as I like its error reporting. I wouldn't
> turn on ssh's compression; instead I'd use the -z on rsync.
I'm facing compression:
* at the PPP level,
* at the ssh level,
* at the rsync level.
Everybody knows that if you compress three times, you'll get incredible
compression :-) :-).
More seriously, I'm using a modem link, and that is why I compress PPP.
It has been especially effective for X connections. I would expect that
SSH produces apparent noise that PPP may not really compress further, so
SSH really has to compress itself, if we want to get something. Moreover,
if all connections were SSH-compressed connections (and that takes care
of X as well), PPP compression would not really be of any use.
Adding RSYNC compression in such context does not seem any useful to me.
It would make sense only in faster networks, where the transport layer
does not use compression itself.
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Fran�ois Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
