>This is normal. OS X's ssh defaults to ssh2, which does take a lot of
>startup time on slower machines. The startup time is acceptable on 68060s
>and faster processors, but I usually use ssh1 when connecting to my
>68040s, VAX, and SPARC (SS2) machines.

MacSSH claims to be an SSH2 only client, and that only has about a 10 
second lag on connect (which is fine by me). I'll still try OS X under 
SSH1 anyway, at least to narrow down what might be causing it.

I did run the SSH with the verbose option, and it hangs on the stage 
"debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY" which would certainly seem 
like it is waiting for the NetBSD machine to do something. I haven't had 
a chance to do a google on that line yet to see what it means exactly (we 
had a heavy rain storm here last night, and every time we do, my home DSL 
starts dropping packets like crazy for 2 days... must be a loose cabinet 
door on a nearby junction box leaking water or something... so I've done 
almost nothing online... once you go high speed, turning back to dialup 
is just too painful!)

Thanks

-chris
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