On 2/22/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>
> > In my experience, most slowness comes from the
> > ping pong nature of 9P on high latency connections.
>
> I've found that many high latency connections are
> really low bandwidth connections in disguise.
> Running drawterm or "ssh -X unix-machine acme"
> is very slow from my apartment to MIT, but
> ssh -XC unix-machine acme is zippy enough that
> I forget it's remote.
>
> Russ
>
> I wonder if one could use Openssh port forwarding to some "closer-by node"
with the appropriate ports and compression, then drawterm to localhost on
those ports and get a benefit automagically without touching drawterm
sources then?

Dave