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Rearrange the channel buffer sizes into three neat use-editable values in options.h. Increasing RECV_MAX_WINDOW gives big network performance increases - even with the present buffers (which haven't changed) it performs a lot better. Next step is to make the window size a cmdline option.
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:40:23 +0000
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.TH dropbearkey 8
.SH NAME
dropbearkey \- create private keys for the use with dropbear(8)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dropbearkey
\-t
.I type
\-f
.I file
[\-s
.IR bits ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dropbearkey
generates a type
.I rsa
or
.I dss
SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the
.BR dropbear (8)
SSH 2 server.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-t \fItype
Type of key to generate.
Must be one of
.I rsa
or
.IR dss .
.TP
.B \-f \fIfile
Write the secret key to the file
.IR file .
.TP
.B \-s \fIbits
Set the key size to
.I bits
bits, should be multiple of 8 (optional).
.SH EXAMPLE
 # dropbearkey -t rsa -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
.SH AUTHOR
Matt Johnston ([email protected]).
.br
Gerrit Pape ([email protected]) wrote this manual page.
.SH SEE ALSO
dropbear(8), dbclient(1)
.P
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html