From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14843 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francois Felix Ingrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ssh rulez Date: 31 Mar 1998 18:37:36 +0200 Organization: Felix's Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <8690pq95pr.fsf@dial.oleane.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153968 18531 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05322 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:04:02 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15932 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:08:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAH12635; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:08:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:06:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12620 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:06:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1287 invoked by uid 504); 31 Mar 1998 20:05:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1284 invoked from network); 31 Mar 1998 20:05:44 -0000 Original-Received: from relay4.oleane.net (194.2.1.6) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 31 Mar 1998 20:05:43 -0000 Original-Received: from [194.2.21.10] (dyn-10.tls.oleane.com [194.2.21.10]) by relay4.oleane.net with SMTP id WAA18942 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:05:45 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Phone: (33) 05 34 25 00 85 X-Url: http://worldserver.oleane.com/felix X-Face: (2-K{U0yXR]I/Wwmk6A:{w{-^>b-:4lQ8n/k$/Y_v?O`S?K(+bMCG%=6hCaV}Q<4{P5GV!7Sw7:JCHk$X h]-U-bd5W*^ZJ#3+SS-mes|KouqUZr]&HMK/39.p"zAg-%d}T#!t2h1F1M}|%M_>#6G31b%6zi*0\m M;$Lp=U*0u'$F*rf+rl|;k,-'bup17^]"Hlv=5S^mY*w6_C`@wdg'YJ^AylxPF3w~28Q52A\*=s0%3 0s?n* writes: > Someone told me that ssh was quite good at compressing things, so I > switched compression on and used the following select method: > > (nntp "news" > (nntp-address "copper.uio.no") > (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh") > (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin) > (nntp-end-of-line "\n") > (nntp-rlogin-parameters > ("telnet" "news.uio.no" "nntp"))) > by default, ssh does not compress... you need to invoke it with -C or specify Compression yes in the config file. > And things go *way* faster over my 33.6k modem. I use the Gnus Agent > to download, and this, like, halves the time it takes to download > stuff. You should thus get event a better thruput... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Did you realize that 2001: Space Odyssey is 30 years old..." ICQ# 10143726 Professional: http://www.laas.fr/~felix mailto:felix@laas.fr Personal: http://worldserver.oleane.com/felix mailto:felix@dial.oleane.com