On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 03:31:11AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> I have two slow machines (a SS4 and a SS5) that I want to run ssh between.
> What knobs can I turn to speed this up:
> 
> 	smaug# time ssh -1 vulab1 date
> 	Sat Mar 29 03:38:21 CET 2003
> 	4.049u 0.322s 1:24.69 5.1%      0+0k 0+18io 0pf+0w
>                       ^^^^^^^
> 
> This is not in a security-critical environment, so turning off encryption
> or using very short keys would be ok.

Are you sure you don't have a dns problem, or something like that ?
I got less than 20 seconds betweem a sparc IPX and a IPC (which are both
slower than SS4/SS5), over the internet (~65ms RTT), and including
typing "yes" to the "continue connecting" question, and my password.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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