[ale] VPN's

[maltzen at mm.com (Gary Maltzen)]

I should think that the additional CPU time to de/compress would be
substantially smaller than the time to transmit the additional bytes (unless
you've got a gigabit connection). Same rules should apply here as using
v.42bis - works best for ordinary text, worst for uncompressable (ZIP,
encrypted, etc.) files.

Darn! the 'EscapeChar' really did sound like a head-thunker, too!

-----Original Message-----
 From: Steve Tynor <tynor at outside.atlanta.twr.com>


Gary Maltzen wrote:

| Assuming you can so configure the underlying ssh session...
|
| Did you try with compression both enabled and disabled?
|
|        Compression
|               Specifies whether to use compression. The  argument
|               must be "yes" or "no".

No, we've only tried uncompressed -- I'd expect compression to only make
things worse (introducing delay due to the compression algorithm's need
to package up strings 'o bytes).