[02:15] <detuneattune> How would one diagnose the reason behind slow SFTP speeds? I understand that it's on average slower than FTP, but I still feel like it could be much faster than what it is now at the very least
[02:16] <detuneattune> I ran a mtr but it didn't show any issues with my local network, and using a VPN didn't make any difference to the speeds I got over SFTP either
[02:16] <detuneattune> Would changing the sysctl settings on my server be worth a shot?
[02:19] <JanC> why would it be slower than FTP?
[02:22] <detuneattune> It's what I had read online when I searched the problem up a little while back. https://serverfault.com/questions/559501/ftp-ftps-sftp-scp-speed-comparison and https://support.cerberusftp.com/hc/en-us/articles/203333215-SFTP-transfer-speed-why-so-much-slower-than-FTP-or-FTPS-
[02:28] <JanC> I guess you can easily check if the encryption is the bottleneck: check CPU usage on both computers to see if it is running at 100%
[02:28] <JanC> (while doing a transfer over SFTP)
[02:32] <detuneattune> I didn't think to try that, just tested it now and it doesn't look like that's the issue either
[03:50] <alkisg> detuneattune: where are you using SFTP, in your LAN? What's the line speed? What is the SFTP speed you're getting?
[07:33] <DK31> when two virtual machines have the same ssh key fingerprint, what indication is this? is this bad practice?
[07:38] <JanC> it probably means they are clones & you didn't customize its host key
[07:38] <JanC> whether that's good or bad depends probably
[07:38] <DK31> is that a security breach
[07:38] <JanC> not per sé
[07:39] <JanC> unless one machine is yours and the other is controlled by someone else, then that's bad  :)
[07:40] <DK31> you could propably jump from machine to machine ?
[07:43] <alkisg> DK31, suppose you ssh to servera, and it's down; I have serverb and I changed my IP to servera; that means that you login to my server thinking you login to yours. I can now see all the traffic, passwords etc that you think you're sending to servera.
[07:44] <DK31> but dont i need also have access to serverb then?
[07:44] <alkisg> I can arrange my ssh server to give you access :)
[07:45] <DK31> sure.. thats true of course
[07:45] <alkisg> It's my code, I can say "sure come in" even you provide an unknown username/password
[07:52] <JanC> if both are your own machines, it could be handy & okay to have them identical in some (but not all) cases