Bug#861078: /usr/bin/ssh: Unsupported option "compressionlevel"

[Philipp Marek <philipp.marek@linbit.com>]

Hi Colin,

thanks a lot for the quick answer!


> > When starting SSH connections, I get a warning:
> > 
> >     ~/.ssh/config line 152: Unsupported option "compressionlevel"
> > 
> > But the man page "ssh_config" clearly states this option,
> 
> It says "Note that this option applies to protocol version 1 only", so
> to enable this option you'd need to install openssh-client-ssh1 and to
> use the "ssh1" binary.  Protocol 2 compression doesn't support different
> compression levels.
> 
> (Are you sure that you still need this, though?  You should be using
> protocol 2 unless you have absolutely no choice.  Maybe this is just a
> leftover in your configuration file.)
Yeah, looks like it.

I wouldn't (knowingly) use protocol 1 since 2001, or something in that 
range. Well, at least on the Linux machines - not sure about the various 
switches out there...


Thank you!