From: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:16:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dropbear: increase default receive window size
X-Git-Tag: v6.0-20240103~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77a0e553c85695977df94fbe524f05ba0b0e0f2a;p=librecmc%2Flibrecmc.git

dropbear: increase default receive window size

Increasing the receive window size improves throughout on higher-latency
links such as WAN connections. The current default of 24KB caps out at
around 500 KB/s.

Increasing the receive buffer to 256KB increases the throughput to at
least 11 MB/s.

Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
(cherry picked from commit f95eecfb21ff08662e022accd30e8254028ff63b)
---

diff --git a/package/network/services/dropbear/files/dropbear.init b/package/network/services/dropbear/files/dropbear.init
index b82e967cbc..a40b5f7bae 100755
--- a/package/network/services/dropbear/files/dropbear.init
+++ b/package/network/services/dropbear/files/dropbear.init
@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ dropbear_instance()
 	PIDCOUNT="$(( ${PIDCOUNT} + 1))"
 	local pid_file="/var/run/${NAME}.${PIDCOUNT}.pid"
 
+	# Increase default receive window size to increase
+	# throughput on high latency links
+	if [ "${RecvWindowSize}" -eq "0" ]; then
+		RecvWindowSize="262144"
+	fi
+
 	procd_open_instance
 	procd_set_param command "$PROG" -F -P "$pid_file"
 	[ "${PasswordAuth}" -eq 0 ] && procd_append_param command -s