On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:05:59AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > In addition to the other suggestions that were made in this thread, it > is useful to specify the blowfish cipher to speed things up on slower > machines. Here is a sample .ssh/config entry that helps: I will consider that. Btw the new deb is now installed and I notice a considerable speed improvement. Thanks to all who jumped in and helped. Bob