Start ascp to transfer 1G from test server

In order to have some FASP traffic to measure I am going to use the programs from Aspera, specifically the "ascp" program to transfer a plain text (i.e., unencrypted) test file from Asper's server to my computer. Additionally, I will output logging information and will limit the maximum rate of the transfer to 100 Mbps.

maguire@ccsser2:~/.aspera/connect/bin> ls
ascp  asperaconnect  asperaconnect.bin  asperacrypt  asunprotect  plugins
maguire@ccsser2:~/.aspera/connect/bin> env ASPERA_SCP_PASS=demoaspera ./ascp -L- -T -l100m aspera@demo.asperasoft.com:aspera-test-dir-large/1GB /tmp/
LOG Aspera Connect version 3.6.0.106805
LOG Alternate log directory: "-"
LOG Configuration: using v2 configuration file "/home/maguire/.aspera/connect/etc/aspera.conf", user -
LOG Initializing FASP version 3.5.4.103990, license max rate=(unlimited), account no.=1, license no.=1 product=6
LOG Configured symlink actions: create=1, follow=1, follow_wide=0, skip=0
LOG [asssh] remote host-key fingerprint f34dfcda4110604e4ecf53e6e18c6559a38cbb43
LOG [asssh] authentication succeeded, proceeding.
LOG changing session job size from 0 to 2 to match server configuration

-L-  log to standard output
-T  disable encryption
-l100m  maximum bandwidth of request – in this case 100 Mbps
 

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Transcript

So I started the file transfer, I looked to see where the executable are that I had downloaded from the website. And now I started the particular program, saying I wanted to get their test data of a one-gigabyte file, I wanted to put in my temp directory, and I specified the maximum rate to be used was a hundred megabits per second. And I've disabled encryption so I could later see the plain text of the actual messages being sent.