SSH on high latency links. Re: [Patch] TCP MD5SIG for OpenSSH

[Thomas ☃ Habets]

On 15 January 2016 at 17:26, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>>> Don't these extra roundtrips further increase the latency of ssh
>>> connection setup (e.g. imagine a high-bandwidth&&high-latency satelite
>>> link) ? ssh is already a *PAIN* in that area, killing it's usefullness
>>> for applications like "Distributed make" because the time to setup the
>>> connection can be much longer than the command executed on the remote
>>> side.
>> They would, but only when this non-default option was enabled.
> OK... are there any good ideas how to mitigate the latency effect ([1]) ?

You could try mosh (https://mosh.mit.edu/).