Question about IPQoS Defaults

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025, Job Snijders wrote:

> https://lpc.events/event/11/contributions/943/attachments/901/1780/inet_tos_lpc2021.pdf
> 
> In relationship to commit 5ee8448a, I was disappointed to discover that
> the Linux ecosystem appears to have undone efforts to improve the
> interactive experience versus fixing the root cause.

I guess you're referring to this?

https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/blob/master/debian/patches/revert-ipqos-defaults.patch?ref_type=heads

If so, then yeah - getting that sorted out would be good. At the very
least IMO Debian should fix this by defaulting to IPQoS=none rather
than a totally-broken legacy TOS value.

-d