> Hi,
>
> I've got a strange problem copying files via scp from a NetBSD-2.0 host to a 
> FreeBSD host.
>
> The scp command starts to copy files, then suddenly (each try at a different 
> position) stops to copy a file and says:
>
> flo@of [~/backuparchive] # scp 04-12-08.tar stoehr@cvs:./backuparchive/
> Password:
> 04-12-08.tar                                    0%    0     0.0KB/s --:-- 
> ETAWrite failed: Permission denied
> lost connection
> flo@of [~/backuparchive] #
>
> Hm, it seems to work OK for small files - big files (this is 700 MB) fail.
>
> One time it copies 20K, one time 2 MB - and sometimes even nothing.
>
> SSH connections to the machine work fine.
>
> ???
>
> Thanks
> Florian
>

Just one more thing: Throttling bandwith (scp -l 10000) makes the 
situation better, now it copies 44% of the file before "connection lost".

?