Question performnace of SSH v1 vs SSH v2

[Damien Miller]

Amba Giri wrote:
> Christopher, thanks for your response.  Our customers have 3.8.1p1
> binaries today.  What is the safest and most efficient way to get the
> v2 performance enhancements to them?  I am not very familiar with the
> Open Source patch process.  Is there a link for this? Should I make
> the changes that I see in the link that you sent  manually to the
> source files of 3.8.1p1?  Are there any risks/drawbacks to this
> approach?  Is it better to upgrade the customer to 3.9.1p1 and,if so,
> does the latter binary have any v2 performance enhancements.

I don't know if they will help you if you, because you haven't stated
what your performance problem is.

These patches help for long, fat pipes and aren't likely to make much
difference on a LAN.

-d