Subject: Re: ssh performance on Mac SE/30
To: Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com>
From: Tom Jernigan <jernigantc@ornl.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/14/2003 10:06:01
It takes about a minute on a 660av with NetBSD 1.6. I tried 
recompiling ssh, etc  for a 68040 as suggested by John Kloss last 
year for 1.5, but I didn't see much difference.
Tom

At 9:50 AM -0500 3/14/03, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>  Well, I got my Mac SE/30 running NetBSD 1.6, and it works pretty well.
>I'm going to use it as a webserver on my DMZ (even an SE/30 can saturate
>my dinky little 128Kbit upstream on my DSL line when serving static
>pages). (For now, though, it's on my LAN, plugged into the same hub as
>the machine I'm ssh'ing from, so the firewall isn't an issue yet.)
>
>  I've got an httpd working, and I'm tring to set up ssh so I can use scp
>to update the website. I'm not terribly familiar with ssh, and I know
>that a 16MHz 68030 is hundreds of times slower than my K6-2/500MHz, but
>ssh takes what seems to be an inordinately long time to get going.
>
>  If I try to ssh over, using "sh -vvv hostname" from my Linux box, the
>process stalls for roughly five minutes on:
>
>    debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
>
>  Then it proceeds, but I wasn't able to ssh as root; even given the right
>password, it denied me. I didn't have time to try a regular user; it might
>be configured to deny remote root logins. The main question I have is, is
>the five-minute delay inevitable on an SE/30? It happens the same way
>ssh'ing *out* from the SE/30, too. Is there anything I can do to speed
>things up?
>
>  If there's a better list for this, or an FM that I should R, please let
>me know. Thanks!
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                         (248) 737-7300 x22317
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