On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Arno Verhoeven wrote:
>
> > Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> > > Most of the overhead comes from the fact that you type too slow 8-) your
> > > typing is transmitted (and echoed) character-per-character, with SSH
> > > protocol frames, TCP, IP and AX.25 headers around them. Joerg's axssh
> > > makes the input linemode, which helps a lot. Add -C compression, and it
> > > should be tolerable.
> >
> > If I add -C , does this than automatically cause the other end to reply
> > with compression also?
>
> It triggers the compression negotiation (=> if both ends support
> compression, it is used). You can enable compression by default in the
> config file, and also set the compression level (not much effect).
As an additional hint, the -v (verbose) option to ssh is very informative.
It will among others show the compression negotiation and, at the end of
connection, the compression statistics. Try it, you will learn a lot.
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