This change made in 7.8 broke on some vmware servers, and also causes some freezes during concurrent transfers on Linux (just a few tens of connections are sufficient to block sshd over a gigabit link). Ubuntu reverted it to switch back to the original defaults, let's do the same. --- ./readconf.c.bad 2023-03-15 22:28:19.000000000 +0100 +++ ./readconf.c 2023-04-10 23:03:32.926805464 +0200 @@ -2606,9 +2606,9 @@ if (options->visual_host_key == -1) options->visual_host_key = 0; if (options->ip_qos_interactive == -1) - options->ip_qos_interactive = IPTOS_DSCP_AF21; + options->ip_qos_interactive = IPTOS_LOWDELAY; if (options->ip_qos_bulk == -1) - options->ip_qos_bulk = IPTOS_DSCP_CS1; + options->ip_qos_bulk = IPTOS_THROUGHPUT; if (options->request_tty == -1) options->request_tty = REQUEST_TTY_AUTO; if (options->session_type == -1) --- ./servconf.c.bad 2023-03-15 22:28:19.000000000 +0100 +++ ./servconf.c 2023-04-10 23:02:45.308844102 +0200 @@ -427,9 +427,9 @@ if (options->permit_tun == -1) options->permit_tun = SSH_TUNMODE_NO; if (options->ip_qos_interactive == -1) - options->ip_qos_interactive = IPTOS_DSCP_AF21; + options->ip_qos_interactive = IPTOS_LOWDELAY; if (options->ip_qos_bulk == -1) - options->ip_qos_bulk = IPTOS_DSCP_CS1; + options->ip_qos_bulk = IPTOS_THROUGHPUT; if (options->version_addendum == NULL) options->version_addendum = xstrdup(""); if (options->fwd_opts.streamlocal_bind_mask == (mode_t)-1)