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Subject: Re: Proposed minor mod to openssh for interactive operation
From: Garance A Drosihn (drosihrpi.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 14:54:25 CDT

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           =   gadeclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosihrpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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