Hello all,

I'm trying to use "-c blowfish" flag to make the scp faster but I get the following error

My source files are in HP-UX and I'm initiating the scp command from RedHat Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga))

Linux> scp scott@dev-host:/DATA1/oradata/DEV/*.dbf /DATA2/oradata/TEST/
no matching cipher found: client blowfish

Am I missing something here? Does my Sys Admin need to configure something?

Thanks for your time.

It might be called 'bf' instead of 'blowfish'.

You don't have -c blowfish in that commandline, so where did you put it? There might be a mistake in the configuration.

sorry about that..my actual command was..

scp -c blowfish scott@dev-host:/DATA1/oradata/DEV/*.dbf /DATA2/oradata/TEST/


As per your suggestion I tried

scp -c bf scott@dev-host:/DATA1/oradata/DEV/*.dbf /DATA2/oradata/TEST/

but it errored out with "unknown cipher type"

I've tried blowfish on RHEL4 and it used to work fine...I think it needs to be configured..

Thanks for your response.