Package: ssh Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8 Severity: normal The -l option of scp is useful so that not all the available bandwidth is taken by scp. Thus, when compression is enabled, it should be the bandwidth limit on the compressed data (i.e. data that will really be sent).
Currently, this is not the case: it is a limit on uncompressed data, so that when option -l is used, only a small fraction of the available bandwidth is taken (when compression is good), and transfers are much longer than they could be (just as if compression were not used). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 Versions of packages ssh depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.5 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-4 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-6 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime -- debconf information excluded
