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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:09:44 -0700
From:      Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Zahemszky_G=E1bor?= <Gabor@Zahemszky.HU>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH Connection Time Problems
Message-ID:  <20020416220944.R23267@rain.macguire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020417045532.GA223@Picasso.Zahemszky.HU>; from Gabor@Zahemszky.HU on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:55:32AM %2B0200
References:  <200204161523.37293.metrol@metrol.net> <20020417045532.GA223@Picasso.Zahemszky.HU>

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* Zahemszky Gábor (Gabor@Zahemszky.HU) [020416 21:50]:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:23:37PM -0700, Michael W. Collette wrote:
> > Recently I have had some problems with getting an SSH connection from my 
> > FreeBSD 4.5-Stable box to my web hosting company's servers, also running 
> > FreeBSD.  It takes over a minute to establish a connection, which is really 
> > mucking up the tunnelling of services I have going to them.
> 
> What about it: somewhere in past, ssh client used to use protocol version 1.
> Now, it uses v2.  Try ssh -1 <machine>.  If it is a lot quicker, try to
> use a bigger machine on the other end.  I had the same problem with my little
> gateway machine at home - it's an old 486.  With v2, it's about a minute or
> two to connect, with v1, only 2 or 3 seconds.
> 
> ZGabor < Gabor at Zahemszky dot HU >

You may also want to use Blowfish as your primary cipher. Blowfish will be a
lot nicer to an older machine.

--
Benjamin Krueger

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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