Re: openssh 4.2p1 zlib compression broken for old clients

On Oct 26, Harald Koenig wrote:

> openssh 4.2p1 breaks old openssh clients up to 3.4p1 when they try to use compression:
>
> # ssh-3.4p1 -C remote-host-with-4.2p1 pwd
> no matching comp found: client zlib server none,zlib@openssh.com

one more note on that topic: for more recent ssh clients, the connection
does not fail anymore, but compression falls back to "none" which result
in an unexpexted performace loss...


Harald Koenig
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