scp interfering with video streaming traffic
 

Hi all,


I am streaming a MPEG-2 transport stream file over RTP from system A to system B . System B is continously copying huge number of small size files using scp to system A . The problem is while copying files from B to A I expecience packet loss on the received streamed video .
The two systems are connected via a LAN switch.

My question is : Is it happening because scp traffic interfering with streaming video . Or there can be any other reason behind this.

I don't think both RTP packets and securecopy interfering each other(there are possibilities for collision but these days all network devices having collision detection and avoidances mechanism), The packet lost cause due to bad cabling, network devices capacity or your network speed because as you saying there may be huge network traffic. what is your network speed 100Mbps or 1000Mbps?

Thanks for your response Kirukan.
The network speed is 1000Mbps and there is no other traffic on the network. I missed to mention that there is no packet loss when I am not doing scp. Its not one scp operation but atleast 30scp operations per/sec. The objective is to copy files as soon as they are generated.I dont know whether it is the right way of copying files in real time or not. If you know any alternative way, then please suggest.

Thanks again for your concern.

dalj