Bug#353303: High Speed Patch
Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.2p1-5
Severity: wishlist
As distributed (up to version 4.3p1), OpenSSH limits its TCP
connections to a buffer size of 64k. This dramatically limits the
bandwidth that can be achieved by ssh, or scp, or rsync using ssh as a
transport mechanism. On typical networks, like a 100Mb transatlantic
connection, the slowdown can be a factor of ten.
The problem is addressed by a little patch:
High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/
It would be nice if we could considerer incorporating this patch.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@cs.nuim.ie>
Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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