Question performnace of SSH v1 vs SSH v2

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Wed Mar 2 02:56:32 EST 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:08:01AM -0500, Christopher Rapier wrote:
> Markus Friedl wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:09:34PM -0500, Michael A Stevens wrote:
> >
> >>Its somewhat more complicated than this. The correct solution is to scale 
> >>the SSH window to a value that matches the window of the protocol 
> >
> >
> >the point of the patch is not to hard-code the window  but
> >the change the only-half-window-is-used bug.
> 
> The question is why was only half the buffer being used in the first 
> place. I think its reasonably safe to assume that there was a reason for 
> it being set up this way.

it was considered appropriate, while we now see that it's not.
so it's safe to change it.  it's better to fix the real bugs,
than to twiddle the symptoms.




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