Slow connection performance with ssh2

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:05:19AM -0500, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > As my hardware is slower (Sparc LX, NetBSD, 50 MHz CPU) it takes more 
> > than 2 minutes (!!), which are spent on CPU cycles in ssh and sshd - running
> > with 95% CPU... - the overall CPU time used by sshd for a successful
> > connect is about 2:50 minutes
> 
> Older SPARCs in general are bloody slow at encryption operations.  

I know that :-) (still: ssh protocol 1 connects in less than 5 seconds).

> Try upgrading to 2.9.9p2, and make sure that you're -not- using DSA, as
> that's REALLY REALLY slow.

I did disable DSA already (I removed the DSA host key (and restarted
sshd), which should be sufficient, no?).  Will try 2.9.9p2...

gert
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