On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, der Mouse wrote:

>>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2003/02/11/0004.html
>>> I just stopped using ssh2 and went back to ssh1.
>> Hmmm... I wonder if it could be related to the same kind of problem
>> on other platforms though it seem a bit extreme on the VAX.
>
> Well, a low-end VAX is in the running for "slowest platform NetBSD
> supports".  (Probably beaten out by the low-end hp300s and maybe some
> of the slower 68k ports, though after once trying to use a VAX-11/725 I
> was only half joking when I said it was a Z-80 running a VAX emulator.)
>
> I'm looking at ssh to see if there isn't some way to speed it up for
> cases like this, where the admins on both ends of the connection are
> (a) trusted by everyone involved and (b) interested in doing so -
> certainly for cases like single-user house LAN use.
>
> Nothing definite yet, but I have hopes.

 	You may find that turning off Diffie-Helman key group exchange at
 	the start could speed up session initiation significantly.
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