Re: maximum size of packets from client to server

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> My question is...  what about the other way around?  What about
>>> packets sent from the client to the server?
>> See the SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN_CONFIRMATION packet [...]
> Hmmm - the first time I looked at the structure of
> SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN_CONFIRMATION, I thought those extra fields were
> for confirmation purposes and didn't give it a second thought.  Seems
> like the RFC should maybe state their purpose in
> SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN_CONFIRMATION a bit more explicitly -

Agreed.  When (if) 4254 is updated, that's a change I'd like to see; as
it stands, it is entirely silent on the purpose of those fields, which
strikes me as a bad idea for a formal spec.

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