Re: Compression

[Markus Friedl]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:47:06PM +0000, Sam Smith wrote:
> Is there any way for Compression to be turned on by default
> in the sshd rather than having to be explicitly requested
> by the client?

SSH1:
no, the protocol does not permit this.  session 'features' are
requested by the client.

SSH2:
the server can force compression if his KEXINIT message contains
"zlib" instead of "none,zlib" (e.g. change DEFAULT_COMPRESSIONS in
sshtrans.c).  "zlib,none" does not help if the client sends
"none,zlib".