Hello,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> skribis:
> While reading (guix scripts offload) in a (failed) attempt to get
> offloading working, the following comment caught my eye:
>
> ;; We rely on protocol-level compression from libssh to optimize
> large data
> ;; transfers. Warn if it's missing.
>
> which means that we're not currently doing our own compression inside
> the tunnel.
>
> This is significant, because it means that the COMPRESS-LEVEL field of
> BUILD-MACHINE is completely bogus[0], and probably always was - unless
[...]
> [0]: Take a look at OpenSSH's readconf.c, packet.c, and all calls to
> start_compression_out().
I don’t get it: the ‘compression-level’ field defaults to 3, and OpenSSH
does:
static int
start_compression_out(struct ssh *ssh, int level)
{
if (level < 1 || level > 9)
return SSH_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT;
debug("Enabling compression at level %d.", level);
[...]
}
What’s wrong?
Ludo’.
