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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:40:19 -0500
From:      "Jeff Love" <jl@burghcom.com>
To:        "Alex Popa" <razor@ldc.ro>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Speeding up ssh over modem?
Message-ID:  <001b01c184e7$f0d8b3d0$dc0a2042@celery>
References:  <20011214233200.A84807@ldc.ro>

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Do you have compression on in your ssh_config?
You are telling it to use a specific cipger, yet you don't define one.

Jeff Love
Burgh-Com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Popa" <razor@ldc.ro>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Speeding up ssh over modem?


> I am using ssh over a slow modem (28k, connects only at 14k because of a
> very noisy line).  My problem is that the new ssh seems to handle output
> from programs differently from older versions.
> 
> To be more precise, issuing "ipfw list" on a 10-rule firewall (mostly
> diverts to pipes, I also use ipfilter) takes noticeably longer than
> "ipfw list | cat".  Also, a tcpdump on my tun0 interface shows three
> packets for "sleep 5;ipfw list|cat", and "sleep 5;ipfw list" gives over
> 50 packets (both cases counting ACKS).
> 
> Is there a way to speed things up? The versions of ssh I am using are:
> local(client):  OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20010713
> remote(server): OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20010713
> 
> The server is running -STABLE cvsupped some 25 days ago, the client is
> cvsupped this week.
> 
> Arguments to ssh were "-v -C -l username".  Server only supports
> protocol version 2.
> 
> Thanks!
> Alex
> 
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