Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
To: None <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: None <opentrax@email.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/20/2000 05:18:34
On 19 Dec, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
>>>>>> "Mipam" == Mipam  <mipam@ibb.net> writes:
>     Mipam> This is pop over ssh and so tcp over tcp.
> 
>   No, it is not. There is not a second tcp header.
> 
>   There pipe which is created is for application data only.
> 
>   With SSH1 from SSH.fi, there is an issue in certain situations where you
> try and use the port-forwarding (particularly the agent forwarding) and have
> chains of SSH. The issue can be summarized as a blocking I/O head-of-queue
> problem.
> 
>   The SSH 2.0 connection layer now deals with this problem and was one the
> major motivations for the 2.0 protocol.
>  
Wait. Where can I get more information on this issue?
Is there a paper somewhere?

				Jessem.