tags 495825 + patch thanks Hi Matt,
thank you for your reply. On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:24:25 +0200, Matt Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:43:58PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> Could you please clarify if dbclient really support compression or not? >> If yes, could you please explain in the manpage how to enable it? > > As long as Dropbear was compiled with zlib support (which I > assume is the case for Debian) It seems so, at least the source build-depends on libz-dev and the binary depends on zlib1g. > dbclient will always use compression if the server supports it. There > isn't any option to disable it at the moment. Is there a way to test that compression is used? I'm sorry, but I'm really not an expert about these stuff. Could the following patch against version 0.51 be applied to the dbclient manpage? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- --- dbclient.1.~1~ 2008-03-27 14:25:44.000000000 +0100 +++ dbclient.1 2008-09-26 15:37:59.000000000 +0200 @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ .B dbclient is a SSH 2 client designed to be small enough to be used in small memory environments, while still being functional and secure enough for general use. +.P +If compiled with zlib support and if the server supports it, dbclient will +always use compression. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-p \fIport --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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