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Re: Long scp transfers fail on dropped packet



 Rich Braun wrote: 
> I'm having a bit of an argument with an online backup vendor about robustness 
> of their application when transferring large files. 
> 
> Vendor:  You're dropping too many packets. 
> Rich: I can't reproduce this with anything less than 100MB of transfer. 
> Vendor:  You're dropping too many packets. 
> 
>... 
> 
> Any thoughts on running scp for files over 2GB or so, in real-world networks 
> that run on systems with flaky gigE drivers?  (Tried reducing port speed to 
> 100/full, doesn't help.) 
> 


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