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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host? |
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> My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline |
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> adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has |
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> got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NFS, too. |
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> With a bandwidth like this even bzip2 could be useful. |
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You could tunnel all your traffic through an OpenVPN [1] link. OpenVPN |
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can be configured to compress all packets using LZO (--comp-lzo). And if |
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encryption overhead is too high, you could have it use a null cipher |
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(--cipher null). |
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-- Remy |
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[1] http://www.openvpn.net/ |
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