OpenSSH HPN

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:42:49AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed that OpenSSH in base is lagging far behind
> the upstream code.
> 
> The main reason for this is the burden of maintaining the HPN patches.
> They are extensive, very intrusive, and touch parts of the OpenSSH code
> that change significantly in every release.  Since they are not
> regularly updated, I have to choose between trying to resolve the
> conflicts myself (hoping I don't break anything) or waiting for them to
> catch up and then figuring out how to apply the new version.
> 
> Therefore, I would like to remove the HPN patches from base and refer
> anyone who really needs them to the openssh-portable port, which has
> them as a default option.  I would also like to remove the NONE cipher
> patch, which is also available in the port (off by default, just like in
> base).

I am plan to use NONE and HPN for bulk transfer, but don't see
performance improvement, in both cases I see only 500Mbit/s.