I've looked around and seen some valid concerns about incorporating a large patchset like this into the Ubuntu packages, but:
1) It's real handy. I'm getting easy 2.5x boosts at home over a single-switch gig-e network.
2) Upstream (openssh.com) doesn't seem to have any burning interest that I can find, after... two years of availability?
3) Upstream (psc.edu) seems willing and able to maintain relatively regular patchset versions for several OpenSSH releases at a time. No release for 5.2 just now, but that doesn't seem like significant lag (yet), in context.
I've looked around and seen some valid concerns about incorporating a large patchset like this into the Ubuntu packages, but:
1) It's real handy. I'm getting easy 2.5x boosts at home over a single-switch gig-e network.
2) Upstream (openssh.com) doesn't seem to have any burning interest that I can find, after... two years of availability?
3) Upstream (psc.edu) seems willing and able to maintain relatively regular patchset versions for several OpenSSH releases at a time. No release for 5.2 just now, but that doesn't seem like significant lag (yet), in context.