[CentOS] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

Tue Aug 21 18:48:32 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:28:10AM +0900, Yuji Tsuchimoto wrote:
>> Dear CentOS lovers,
>>
>> Could you consider to include a patch,
>> http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/
>> for openssh maybe as CentosPlus packages?
>> It has great speed impact for long-distance ( high delay ) transfer.
> 
> This would be pretty cool.  Would it be appropriate for CentOS Plus?
> 
> I know Fedora had a pretty good thread on the possibility of adding
> this, but I think it was sort of decided against.  Felt it was more
> appropriate to push OpenSSH to add support for this type of thing.

url to the thread please ..

> So I doubt we'll see it in RHEL/CentOS anytime soon, but perhaps Plus
> would be the place for it..

I've not looked at this, but it would be interesting to see what the 
developer of the patch thinks about maintaining and owning bugs that 
come up due to its use in CentOS.

- KB