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Re: Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

  • From: Robert E. Seastrom
  • Date: Mon Jun 16 07:22:14 2008 
Glen Turner <gdt@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Fedora 8 and 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 include the upstream OpenSSH which include
> large window patches.  OpenSSH 4.7 ChangeLog contains:
>
>> Other changes, new functionality and fixes in this release:
> ...
>>  * The SSH channel window size has been increased, and both ssh(1)
>>    sshd(8) now send window updates more aggressively. These improves
>>    performance on high-BDP (Bandwidth Delay Product) networks.

Turns out that the Mac does too.  Haven't checked FreeBSD 7 yet, but
6.x is definitely lagging.

Thanks for the clue,

-r