On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:03:59PM -0700, Greg Earle wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Holger Weiss wrote:
> >* Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com> [2004-09-27 19:19]:
> >>My SPARCclassic is my firewall/DNS. My SS5 build packages for the
> >>'classic. I just wish ssh was quicker on the SPARCs.
> >
> >Have you tried recompiling OpenSSH/OpenSSL with "-mcpu=v8" on the SS5?
> >SSH 2 logins are _way_ faster when using v8 code on sun4m machines. On
> >sun4c, I'd use SSH 1.
> 
> I just rebuilt libssl/libcrypto/openssl/sshd with CPPFLAGS set to
> "-mcpu=v8" in the environment on my SS20 with a 180 MHz Ross HyperSPARC,
> and my login time to "slogin" into the machine dropped from (roughly)
> 22.76 seconds down to 13.88 seconds.  That's roughly a 40% speed
> improvement.  I'd rebuild the whole world if I could get that across
> the board  ;-)

When I use a kerberized telnet with the data encryption turned on ("-x")
to connect to my SS10 (dual Ross 90s), it takes only a second or two to
login and load the shell.

Is SSH doing something vastly different?

-T


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