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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:54:25 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed minor mod to openssh for interactive operation
Message-ID:  <v04210103b5fe97d648bf@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200009300023.e8U0NUW20137@earth.backplane.com>
References:  <200009300023.e8U0NUW20137@earth.backplane.com>

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At 5:23 PM -0700 9/29/00, Matt Dillon wrote:
>    At the moment openssh only turns on TCP_NODELAY etc if it
>    thinks you are creating an interactive shell, based on
>    whether it allocates a pty or not.
>
>    Unfortunately, I have an application (and I expect this
>    would be useful generally) which uses a ssh link between
>    two programs interactively.
>    That is, send command, wait response, send command, wait
>    response.  Delaying packets is a bad idea and cuts
>    performance over the link by about 20%.

Would it be more appropriate to use stunnel (in ports) instead
of an ssh connection for your application?

(I'm just wondering...)


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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