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To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: OpenSSH HPN
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:56:06 +0100
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Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> writes:
> The inclusion of the HPN patches meant that we could drop a custom
> unsupported HPN enabled ssh from our build process.  It makes ssh
> actually usable.

Define "usable".  Does it actually make a measurable difference with the
latest OpenSSH?  And if HPN is so important to you, is there a reason
why you can't use the port?

DES
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