Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: NetBSD SPARC <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/30/2004 15:20:29
On 29.09.04, 15:53:04, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 11:07:16 (+0200), Bernd Sieker wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
> >
> > An ssh2 login to my router (75MHz SuperSPARC-II) takes about 12
> > seconds, which is not great, but tolerable.
> 
> That sucks, actually.  "most" is also a 75MHz SS-20:
> 
> <proven> $ time ssh most id
> woods@most's password: 
> uid=1000(woods) gid=1000(users) groups=1000(users),0(wheel),5(operator)
>     6.46s real     0.48s user     0.12s system
> 
> [...]
> 
> Use SSH-2 from ftp.ssh.com for fast, happy, SSHv2 connections!

Ah, the joys of using proprietary software ... ;-)

> 
> (But beware the OpenSSH folks broke SSHv2 SFTP and SCP protocol
> compatability, again.  Seems like they do this regularly on purpose.)

Those being OpenBSD guys, I wouldn't be surprised in the least. I
remember abandoning OpenSSH being discussed in NetBSD Fora more
than once.

> 
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