On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:55:19PM -0600, Paul Boatman wrote:
> Unfortunately, we are pretty locked down. We aren't allowed to FTP, and
> they can't ssh to our server for a secure ftp etc.. 
> 
> Any other ideas ? Changing the AUTO - AUTO setting is not an option,
> trust me I wish it was.

What if you use bpgp on the media server to get a file from the client?
Time that for a large file and see how long it takes.  Here's an
example:
[root@osiris ewilts]# time bpgp from corpftp.bck.mrll.com
/home/ewilts/storageconsole.tar /home/ewilts/sc.tar

real    0m6.867s
user    0m0.120s
sys     0m1.310s

[root@osiris ewilts]# ls -l sc.tar
-rw-------   1 root     other    33704960 Mar 24 13:36 sc.tar

So, in my case, I transferred 32M in 6.8 seconds or about 4.9MB/sec.
Not bad for a 100mbps link.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org