Bug#272653: ssh: option -l of scp (bandwidth limit) should apply to compressed data
Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8
Severity: normal
The -l option of scp is useful so that not all the available bandwidth
is taken by scp. Thus, when compression is enabled, it should be the
bandwidth limit on the compressed data (i.e. data that will really be
sent).
Currently, this is not the case: it is a limit on uncompressed data,
so that when option -l is used, only a small fraction of the available
bandwidth is taken (when compression is good), and transfers are much
longer than they could be (just as if compression were not used).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.5 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-4 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-6 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
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