Subject: Re: ssh performance on Mac SE/30
To: Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com>
From: Tom Jernigan <jernigantc@ornl.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/14/2003 10:13:07
oops, make that John Klos. Here's the url for the instructions he 
gave for improving a 68040, but they won't help a 68030.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2002/02/10/0000.html

Tom

At 10:06 AM -0500 3/14/03, Tom Jernigan wrote:
>It takes about a minute on a 660av with NetBSD 1.6. I tried 
>recompiling ssh, etc  for a 68040 as suggested by John Kloss last 
>year for 1.5, but I didn't see much difference.
>Tom
>
>At 9:50 AM -0500 3/14/03, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>>  Well, I got my Mac SE/30 running NetBSD 1.6, and it works pretty well.
>>I'm going to use it as a webserver on my DMZ (even an SE/30 can saturate
>>my dinky little 128Kbit upstream on my DSL line when serving static
>>pages). (For now, though, it's on my LAN, plugged into the same hub as
>>the machine I'm ssh'ing from, so the firewall isn't an issue yet.)
>>
>>  I've got an httpd working, and I'm tring to set up ssh so I can use scp
>>to update the website. I'm not terribly familiar with ssh, and I know
>>that a 16MHz 68030 is hundreds of times slower than my K6-2/500MHz, but
>>ssh takes what seems to be an inordinately long time to get going.
>>
>>  If I try to ssh over, using "sh -vvv hostname" from my Linux box, the
>>process stalls for roughly five minutes on:
>>
>>    debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
>>
>>  Then it proceeds, but I wasn't able to ssh as root; even given the right
>>password, it denied me. I didn't have time to try a regular user; it might
>>be configured to deny remote root logins. The main question I have is, is
>>the five-minute delay inevitable on an SE/30? It happens the same way
>>ssh'ing *out* from the SE/30, too. Is there anything I can do to speed
>>things up?
>>
>>  If there's a better list for this, or an FM that I should R, please let
>>me know. Thanks!
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Ray Ingles                                         (248) 737-7300 x22317
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